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!
2 weights · Display
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Corben
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
0.683
stroke weight
15% of cap height
0.150
contrast
Medium
0.453
letter width
Normal
1.039
Web embed
Use Corben on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Corben:wght@400;700&display=swap');
/* Corben */
body {
font-family: 'Corben', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Details
- Family
- Corben
- Category
- Display
- Designers
- Vernon Adams
- Added to Google Fonts
- December 20, 2010
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- latin, latin-ext
About the Corben font
Corben is a display typeface designed by Vernon Adams, first released to Google Fonts on December 2010. It ships with 2 weights 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 68% 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 Corben against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Corben 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.