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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!
1 weight · Serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Bentham
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
Low
0.630
stroke weight
12% of cap height
0.116
contrast
High
0.745
letter width
Normal
0.917
Web embed
Use Bentham on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Bentham&display=swap');
/* Bentham */
body {
font-family: 'Bentham', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Pairing
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A curated sans-serif companion that balances the tone of Bentham.
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Details
- Family
- Bentham
- Category
- Serif
- Designers
- Ben Weiner
- Added to Google Fonts
- November 30, 2010
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- latin, latin-ext
About the Bentham font
Bentham is a serif typeface designed by Ben Weiner, first released to Google Fonts on November 2010. 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 low x-height at 63% of the cap height, normal letter forms and high stroke contrast. Those three numbers are what the font finder uses to narrow an image down to the closest matches, so you can compare Bentham against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Bentham 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.