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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!
10 weights · italic · variable · Sans-serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of DM Sans
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
0.720
stroke weight
14% of cap height
0.144
contrast
Low
0.173
letter width
Normal
0.994
Web embed
Use DM Sans on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=DM+Sans:wght@100;200;300;400;ital@1&display=swap');
/* DM Sans */
body {
font-family: 'DM Sans', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Free alternatives
DM Sans is a free alternative to
DM Sans can stand in for these commercial typefaces at a fraction of the price — licence-free.
Pairing
What goes with DM Sans
A curated serif companion that balances the tone of DM Sans.
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Details
- Family
- DM Sans
- Category
- Sans-serif
- Designers
- Colophon Foundry
- Added to Google Fonts
- June 11, 2019
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- latin, latin-ext
About the DM Sans font
DM Sans is a sans-serif typeface designed by Colophon Foundry, first released to Google Fonts on June 2019. It ships with 10 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 72% of the cap height, normal 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 DM Sans against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether DM Sans 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.