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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!
3 weights · italic · Serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Crimson Text
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
0.657
stroke weight
11% of cap height
0.108
contrast
Medium
0.549
letter width
Condensed
0.847
Web embed
Use Crimson Text on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Crimson+Text:wght@400;600;700;ital@1&display=swap');
/* Crimson Text */
body {
font-family: 'Crimson Text', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Details
- Family
- Crimson Text
- Category
- Serif
- Designers
- Sebastian Kosch
- Added to Google Fonts
- January 26, 2011
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- latin, latin-ext, vietnamese
About the Crimson Text font
Crimson Text is a serif typeface designed by Sebastian Kosch, first released to Google Fonts on January 2011. It ships with 3 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 66% of the cap height, condensed 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 Crimson Text against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Crimson Text 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.