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 Gideon Roman
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
0.718
stroke weight
11% of cap height
0.113
contrast
Medium
0.260
letter width
Normal
0.973
Web embed
Use Gideon Roman on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Gideon+Roman&display=swap');
/* Gideon Roman */
body {
font-family: 'Gideon Roman', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Details
- Family
- Gideon Roman
- Category
- Display
- Designers
- Robert Leuschke
- Added to Google Fonts
- August 26, 2021
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- latin, latin-ext, vietnamese
About the Gideon Roman font
Gideon Roman is a display typeface designed by Robert Leuschke, first released to Google Fonts on August 2021. 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 medium x-height at 72% 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 Gideon Roman against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Gideon Roman 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.