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!
1 weight · Display
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Bigelow Rules
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
0.651
stroke weight
8% of cap height
0.078
contrast
High
0.694
letter width
Condensed
0.508
Web embed
Use Bigelow Rules on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Bigelow+Rules&display=swap');
/* Bigelow Rules */
body {
font-family: 'Bigelow Rules', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Details
- Family
- Bigelow Rules
- Category
- Display
- Designers
- Astigmatic
- Added to Google Fonts
- November 2, 2012
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- latin, latin-ext
About the Bigelow Rules font
Bigelow Rules is a display typeface designed by Astigmatic, first released to Google Fonts on November 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 65% of the cap height, condensed 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 Bigelow Rules against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Bigelow Rules 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.