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!
1 weight · Display
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Freehand
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
Low
0.472
stroke weight
11% of cap height
0.112
contrast
Low
0.200
letter width
Condensed
0.738
Web embed
Use Freehand on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Freehand&display=swap');
/* Freehand */
body {
font-family: 'Freehand', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Details
- Family
- Freehand
- Category
- Display
- Designers
- Danh Hong
- Added to Google Fonts
- March 2, 2011
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- khmer, latin
About the Freehand font
Freehand is a display typeface designed by Danh Hong, first released to Google Fonts on March 2011. It ships with 1 weight 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 low x-height at 47% of the cap height, condensed 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 Freehand against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Freehand 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.