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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!
7 weights · italic · variable · Sans-serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Josefin 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
Low
0.573
stroke weight
14% of cap height
0.137
contrast
Low
0.179
letter width
Normal
0.947
Web embed
Use Josefin Sans on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Josefin+Sans:wght@100;200;300;400;ital@1&display=swap');
/* Josefin Sans */
body {
font-family: 'Josefin Sans', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Details
- Family
- Josefin Sans
- Category
- Sans-serif
- Designers
- Santiago Orozco
- Added to Google Fonts
- November 17, 2010
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- latin, latin-ext, vietnamese
About the Josefin Sans font
Josefin Sans is a sans-serif typeface designed by Santiago Orozco, first released to Google Fonts on November 2010. It ships with 7 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 low x-height at 57% 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 Josefin Sans against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Josefin 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.