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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!
1 weight · Serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Jacques Francois
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
0.605
stroke weight
14% of cap height
0.137
contrast
High
0.689
letter width
Normal
0.970
Web embed
Use Jacques Francois on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Jacques+Francois&display=swap');
/* Jacques Francois */
body {
font-family: 'Jacques Francois', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Details
- Family
- Jacques Francois
- Category
- Serif
- Designers
- Cyreal
- Added to Google Fonts
- September 7, 2012
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- latin
About the Jacques Francois font
Jacques Francois is a serif typeface designed by Cyreal, first released to Google Fonts on September 2012. 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 61% of the cap height, normal letter forms and high stroke contrast. Those three numbers are what the font finder uses to narrow an image down to the closest matches, so you can compare Jacques Francois against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Jacques Francois 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.