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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!
9 weights · italic · variable · Serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Fraunces
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
0.671
stroke weight
17% of cap height
0.172
contrast
High
0.621
letter width
Normal
1.021
Web embed
Use Fraunces on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Fraunces:wght@100;200;300;400;ital@1&display=swap');
/* Fraunces */
body {
font-family: 'Fraunces', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Details
- Family
- Fraunces
- Category
- Serif
- Designers
- Undercase Type, Phaedra Charles, Flavia Zimbardi
- Added to Google Fonts
- July 23, 2020
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- latin, latin-ext, vietnamese
About the Fraunces font
Fraunces is a serif typeface designed by Undercase Type and Phaedra Charles and Flavia Zimbardi, first released to Google Fonts on July 2020. It ships with 9 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 67% 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 Fraunces against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Fraunces 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.