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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!
1 weight · Sans-serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Basic
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
0.753
stroke weight
18% of cap height
0.180
contrast
Medium
0.280
letter width
Normal
0.912
Web embed
Use Basic on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Basic&display=swap');
/* Basic */
body {
font-family: 'Basic', 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 Basic.
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Details
- Family
- Basic
- Category
- Sans-serif
- Designers
- Magnus Gaarde
- Added to Google Fonts
- December 15, 2011
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- latin, latin-ext
About the Basic font
Basic is a sans-serif typeface designed by Magnus Gaarde, first released to Google Fonts on December 2011. It ships with 1 weight 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 75% of the cap height, normal letter forms and medium stroke contrast. Those three numbers are what the font finder uses to narrow an image down to the closest matches, so you can compare Basic against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Basic 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.