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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!
2 weights · Display
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Elsie
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
0.757
stroke weight
15% of cap height
0.147
contrast
High
0.828
letter width
Normal
0.957
Web embed
Use Elsie on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Elsie:wght@400;900&display=swap');
/* Elsie */
body {
font-family: 'Elsie', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Details
- Family
- Elsie
- Category
- Display
- Designers
- Alejandro Inler
- Added to Google Fonts
- December 13, 2012
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- latin, latin-ext
About the Elsie font
Elsie is a display typeface designed by Alejandro Inler, first released to Google Fonts on December 2012. It ships with 2 weights 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 76% 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 Elsie against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Elsie 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.