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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 · Handwriting
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Berkshire Swash
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
0.477
stroke weight
26% of cap height
0.258
contrast
High
0.670
letter width
Normal
0.907
Web embed
Use Berkshire Swash on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Berkshire+Swash&display=swap');
/* Berkshire Swash */
body {
font-family: 'Berkshire Swash', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Details
- Family
- Berkshire Swash
- Category
- Handwriting
- Designers
- Astigmatic
- Added to Google Fonts
- March 14, 2012
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- latin, latin-ext
About the Berkshire Swash font
Berkshire Swash is a handwriting typeface designed by Astigmatic, first released to Google Fonts on March 2012. 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 48% 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 Berkshire Swash against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Berkshire Swash 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.