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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!
7 weights · variable · Sans-serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Darker Grotesque
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
0.721
stroke weight
6% of cap height
0.064
contrast
Low
0.125
letter width
Condensed
0.760
Web embed
Use Darker Grotesque on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Darker+Grotesque:wght@300;400;500;600&display=swap');
/* Darker Grotesque */
body {
font-family: 'Darker Grotesque', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Details
- Family
- Darker Grotesque
- Category
- Sans-serif
- Designers
- Gabriel Lam, ViệtAnh Nguyễn
- Added to Google Fonts
- June 19, 2019
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- latin, latin-ext, vietnamese
About the Darker Grotesque font
Darker Grotesque is a sans-serif typeface designed by Gabriel Lam and ViệtAnh Nguyễn, first released to Google Fonts on June 2019. It ships with 7 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 medium x-height at 72% 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 Darker Grotesque against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Darker Grotesque 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.