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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 · Handwriting
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Jim Nightshade
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
High
0.978
stroke weight
10% of cap height
0.102
contrast
Low
0.200
letter width
Condensed
0.639
Web embed
Use Jim Nightshade on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Jim+Nightshade&display=swap');
/* Jim Nightshade */
body {
font-family: 'Jim Nightshade', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Details
- Family
- Jim Nightshade
- Category
- Handwriting
- Designers
- Astigmatic
- Added to Google Fonts
- January 4, 2012
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- latin, latin-ext
About the Jim Nightshade font
Jim Nightshade is a handwriting typeface designed by Astigmatic, first released to Google Fonts on January 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 high x-height at 98% 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 Jim Nightshade against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Jim Nightshade 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.