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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 · italic · variable · Serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Gelasio
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
0.700
stroke weight
15% of cap height
0.152
contrast
High
0.551
letter width
Normal
0.951
Web embed
Use Gelasio on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Gelasio:wght@400;500;600;700;ital@1&display=swap');
/* Gelasio */
body {
font-family: 'Gelasio', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Pairing
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Details
- Family
- Gelasio
- Category
- Serif
- Designers
- Eben Sorkin
- Added to Google Fonts
- December 3, 2019
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- latin, latin-ext, vietnamese
About the Gelasio font
Gelasio is a serif typeface designed by Eben Sorkin, first released to Google Fonts on December 2019. 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 70% 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 Gelasio against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Gelasio 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.