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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 · variable · Sans-serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Cairo
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
0.724
stroke weight
13% of cap height
0.132
contrast
Low
0.158
letter width
Normal
0.903
Web embed
Use Cairo on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Cairo:wght@200;300;400;500&display=swap');
/* Cairo */
body {
font-family: 'Cairo', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Details
- Family
- Cairo
- Category
- Sans-serif
- Designers
- Mohamed Gaber, Accademia di Belle Arti di Urbino
- Added to Google Fonts
- June 15, 2016
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- arabic, latin, latin-ext
About the Cairo font
Cairo is a sans-serif typeface designed by Mohamed Gaber and Accademia di Belle Arti di Urbino, first released to Google Fonts on June 2016. 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 72% of the cap height, normal 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 Cairo against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Cairo 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.