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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 · Sans-serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of El Messiri
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
0.712
stroke weight
14% of cap height
0.145
contrast
High
0.579
letter width
Normal
0.910
Web embed
Use El Messiri on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=El+Messiri:wght@400;500;600;700&display=swap');
/* El Messiri */
body {
font-family: 'El Messiri', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Details
- Family
- El Messiri
- Category
- Sans-serif
- Designers
- Mohamed Gaber, Jovanny Lemonad
- Added to Google Fonts
- May 31, 2016
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- arabic, cyrillic, latin, latin-ext
About the El Messiri font
El Messiri is a sans-serif typeface designed by Mohamed Gaber and Jovanny Lemonad, first released to Google Fonts on May 2016. 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 medium x-height at 71% of the cap height, normal letter forms and high stroke contrast. Those three numbers are what the font finder uses to narrow an image down to the closest matches, so you can compare El Messiri against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether El Messiri 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.