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 Boldonse
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
0.731
stroke weight
66% of cap height
0.664
contrast
Low
0.044
letter width
Expanded
1.278
Web embed
Use Boldonse on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Boldonse&display=swap');
/* Boldonse */
body {
font-family: 'Boldonse', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Pairing
What goes with Boldonse
A curated serif companion that balances the tone of Boldonse.
Details
- Family
- Boldonse
- Category
- Display
- Designers
- Universitype
- Added to Google Fonts
- March 13, 2025
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- latin, latin-ext
About the Boldonse font
Boldonse is a display typeface designed by Universitype, first released to Google Fonts on March 2025. 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 medium x-height at 73% of the cap height, expanded 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 Boldonse against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Boldonse 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.