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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!
9 weights · italic · variable · Serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Bitter
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
0.762
stroke weight
14% of cap height
0.145
contrast
Medium
0.280
letter width
Normal
1.015
Web embed
Use Bitter on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Bitter:wght@100;200;300;400;ital@1&display=swap');
/* Bitter */
body {
font-family: 'Bitter', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Pairing
What goes with Bitter
A curated sans-serif companion that balances the tone of Bitter.
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Details
- Family
- Bitter
- Category
- Serif
- Designers
- Sol Matas
- Added to Google Fonts
- December 19, 2011
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, latin, latin-ext, vietnamese
About the Bitter font
Bitter is a serif typeface designed by Sol Matas, first released to Google Fonts on December 2011. It ships with 9 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 76% of the cap height, normal letter forms and medium stroke contrast. Those three numbers are what the font finder uses to narrow an image down to the closest matches, so you can compare Bitter against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Bitter 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.