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!
4 weights · Sans-serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Harmattan
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
0.699
stroke weight
9% of cap height
0.088
contrast
Low
0.146
letter width
Condensed
0.733
Web embed
Use Harmattan on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Harmattan:wght@400;500;600;700&display=swap');
/* Harmattan */
body {
font-family: 'Harmattan', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Details
- Family
- Harmattan
- Category
- Sans-serif
- Designers
- SIL International
- Added to Google Fonts
- July 2, 2020
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- arabic, latin, latin-ext
About the Harmattan font
Harmattan is a sans-serif typeface designed by SIL International, first released to Google Fonts on July 2020. It ships with 4 weights 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, 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 Harmattan against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Harmattan 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.