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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!
4 weights · variable · Handwriting
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Dancing Script
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
0.485
stroke weight
8% of cap height
0.080
contrast
Low
0.200
letter width
Condensed
0.741
Web embed
Use Dancing Script on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Dancing+Script:wght@400;500;600;700&display=swap');
/* Dancing Script */
body {
font-family: 'Dancing Script', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Details
- Family
- Dancing Script
- Category
- Handwriting
- Designers
- Impallari Type
- Added to Google Fonts
- May 18, 2011
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- latin, latin-ext, vietnamese
About the Dancing Script font
Dancing Script is a handwriting typeface designed by Impallari Type, first released to Google Fonts on May 2011. It ships with 4 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 low x-height at 49% of the cap height, condensed 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 Dancing Script against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Dancing Script 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.