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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 · Sans-serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Chivo
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
0.745
stroke weight
17% of cap height
0.174
contrast
Medium
0.306
letter width
Normal
1.023
Web embed
Use Chivo on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Chivo:wght@100;200;300;400;ital@1&display=swap');
/* Chivo */
body {
font-family: 'Chivo', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Details
- Family
- Chivo
- Category
- Sans-serif
- Designers
- Omnibus-Type
- Added to Google Fonts
- December 7, 2011
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- latin, latin-ext, vietnamese
About the Chivo font
Chivo is a sans-serif typeface designed by Omnibus-Type, 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 75% 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 Chivo against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Chivo 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.