Specimen
Handgloves
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 · italic · variable · Display
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Expletus 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
0.711
stroke weight
17% of cap height
0.171
contrast
Medium
0.271
letter width
Normal
0.990
Web embed
Use Expletus Sans on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Expletus+Sans:wght@400;500;600;700;ital@1&display=swap');
/* Expletus Sans */
body {
font-family: 'Expletus Sans', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Pairing
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A curated serif companion that balances the tone of Expletus Sans.
Details
- Family
- Expletus Sans
- Category
- Display
- Designers
- Designtown
- Added to Google Fonts
- May 4, 2011
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- latin, latin-ext
About the Expletus Sans font
Expletus Sans is a display typeface designed by Designtown, first released to Google Fonts on May 2011. It ships with 4 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 71% of the cap height, normal letter forms and medium stroke contrast. Those three numbers are what the font finder uses to narrow an image down to the closest matches, so you can compare Expletus Sans against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Expletus 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.