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!
6 weights · italic · variable · Serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Besley
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
0.693
stroke weight
16% of cap height
0.160
contrast
High
0.571
letter width
Normal
1.079
Web embed
Use Besley on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Besley:wght@400;500;600;700;ital@1&display=swap');
/* Besley */
body {
font-family: 'Besley', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Pairing
What goes with Besley
A curated sans-serif companion that balances the tone of Besley.
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Details
- Family
- Besley
- Category
- Serif
- Designers
- Owen Earl
- Added to Google Fonts
- January 5, 2021
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- latin, latin-ext
About the Besley font
Besley is a serif typeface designed by Owen Earl, first released to Google Fonts on January 2021. It ships with 6 weights · italic · variable 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 69% 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 Besley against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Besley 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.