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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 · Serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Goudy Bookletter 1911
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
0.604
stroke weight
10% of cap height
0.104
contrast
Medium
0.345
letter width
Condensed
0.831
Web embed
Use Goudy Bookletter 1911 on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Goudy+Bookletter+1911&display=swap');
/* Goudy Bookletter 1911 */
body {
font-family: 'Goudy Bookletter 1911', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Pairing
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Details
- Family
- Goudy Bookletter 1911
- Category
- Serif
- Designers
- Barry Schwartz
- Added to Google Fonts
- February 9, 2011
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- latin
About the Goudy Bookletter 1911 font
Goudy Bookletter 1911 is a serif typeface designed by Barry Schwartz, first released to Google Fonts on February 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 60% of the cap height, condensed 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 Goudy Bookletter 1911 against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
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