Specimen
Handgloves
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!
3 weights · Sans-serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of BenchNine
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
0.700
stroke weight
11% of cap height
0.112
contrast
Low
0.224
letter width
Condensed
0.607
Web embed
Use BenchNine on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=BenchNine:wght@300;400;700&display=swap');
/* BenchNine */
body {
font-family: 'BenchNine', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Pairing
What goes with BenchNine
A curated serif companion that balances the tone of BenchNine.
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Details
- Family
- BenchNine
- Category
- Sans-serif
- Designers
- Vernon Adams
- Added to Google Fonts
- September 24, 2012
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- latin, latin-ext
About the BenchNine font
BenchNine is a sans-serif typeface designed by Vernon Adams, first released to Google Fonts on September 2012. It ships with 3 weights 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 70% 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 BenchNine against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether BenchNine 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.