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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 · Sans-serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Instrument Sans
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
0.708
stroke weight
14% of cap height
0.139
contrast
Low
0.163
letter width
Normal
1.000
Web embed
Use Instrument Sans on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Instrument+Sans:wght@400;500;600;700;ital@1&display=swap');
/* Instrument Sans */
body {
font-family: 'Instrument Sans', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Details
- Family
- Instrument Sans
- Category
- Sans-serif
- Designers
- Rodrigo Fuenzalida, Jordan Egstad
- Added to Google Fonts
- May 8, 2023
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- latin, latin-ext
About the Instrument Sans font
Instrument Sans is a sans-serif typeface designed by Rodrigo Fuenzalida and Jordan Egstad, first released to Google Fonts on May 2023. 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 71% of the cap height, normal 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 Instrument Sans against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Instrument Sans 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.