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!
9 weights · variable · Display
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Big Shoulders
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
0.750
stroke weight
17% of cap height
0.172
contrast
Low
0.220
letter width
Condensed
0.710
Web embed
Use Big Shoulders on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Big+Shoulders:wght@100;200;300;400&display=swap');
/* Big Shoulders */
body {
font-family: 'Big Shoulders', 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 Big Shoulders.
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Details
- Family
- Big Shoulders
- Category
- Display
- Designers
- Patric King
- Added to Google Fonts
- February 5, 2025
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- latin, latin-ext, vietnamese
About the Big Shoulders font
Big Shoulders is a display typeface designed by Patric King, first released to Google Fonts on February 2025. It ships with 9 weights · 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 75% 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 Big Shoulders against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Big Shoulders 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.