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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!
2 weights · italic · Serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Cardo
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
0.638
stroke weight
12% of cap height
0.123
contrast
High
0.630
letter width
Normal
0.919
Web embed
Use Cardo on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Cardo:wght@400;700;ital@1&display=swap');
/* Cardo */
body {
font-family: 'Cardo', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
Fonts like Cardo
Pairing
What goes with Cardo
A curated sans-serif companion that balances the tone of Cardo.
Details
- Family
- Cardo
- Category
- Serif
- Designers
- David Perry
- Added to Google Fonts
- September 7, 2011
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- gothic, greek, greek-ext, hebrew, latin, latin-ext, old-italic, runic
About the Cardo font
Cardo is a serif typeface designed by David Perry, first released to Google Fonts on September 2011. It ships with 2 weights · italic 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 64% of the cap height, normal 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 Cardo against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Cardo 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.