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The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 0123456789 — the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs. How vexingly quick daft zebras jump!
9 weights · italic · Sans-serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Barlow Semi Condensed
Measured from the real outline files, normalised to a 1.0 x-height — the numbers we compare when matching your image against the library.
x-height
Medium
0.723
stroke weight
12% of cap height
0.123
contrast
Low
0.140
letter width
Condensed
0.827
Web embed
Use Barlow Semi Condensed on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Barlow+Semi+Condensed:wght@100;200;300;400;ital@1&display=swap');
/* Barlow Semi Condensed */
body {
font-family: 'Barlow Semi Condensed', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Pairing
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A curated serif companion that balances the tone of Barlow Semi Condensed.
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Details
- Family
- Barlow Semi Condensed
- Category
- Sans-serif
- Designers
- Jeremy Tribby
- Added to Google Fonts
- October 26, 2017
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- latin, latin-ext, vietnamese
About the Barlow Semi Condensed font
Barlow Semi Condensed is a sans-serif typeface designed by Jeremy Tribby, first released to Google Fonts on October 2017. It ships with 9 weights · italic and is licenced under the SIL Open Font License, which permits commercial use in websites, apps, documents and print without attribution or payment.
Its measured character is a medium x-height at 72% of the cap height, condensed letter forms and low stroke contrast. Those three numbers are what the font finder uses to narrow an image down to the closest matches, so you can compare Barlow Semi Condensed against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Barlow Semi Condensed is the face in a screenshot you have? Run it through the free font identifier, or browse the full library of 1,935 open-source fonts for something with a similar feel.