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!
2 weights · italic · Serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Gentium Book Plus
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
0.738
stroke weight
14% of cap height
0.140
contrast
Medium
0.382
letter width
Normal
0.913
Web embed
Use Gentium Book Plus on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Gentium+Book+Plus:wght@400;700;ital@1&display=swap');
/* Gentium Book Plus */
body {
font-family: 'Gentium Book Plus', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Details
- Family
- Gentium Book Plus
- Category
- Serif
- Designers
- SIL International
- Added to Google Fonts
- May 18, 2022
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, greek, greek-ext, latin, latin-ext, vietnamese
About the Gentium Book Plus font
Gentium Book Plus is a serif typeface designed by SIL International, first released to Google Fonts on May 2022. It ships with 2 weights · italic 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 74% 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 Gentium Book Plus against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Gentium Book Plus 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.