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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!
9 weights · italic · variable · Sans-serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Jost
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
0.657
stroke weight
13% of cap height
0.126
contrast
Low
0.082
letter width
Normal
0.888
Web embed
Use Jost on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Jost:wght@100;200;300;400;ital@1&display=swap');
/* Jost */
body {
font-family: 'Jost', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Free alternatives
Jost is a free alternative to
Jost can stand in for these commercial typefaces at a fraction of the price — licence-free.
Pairing
What goes with Jost
A curated serif companion that balances the tone of Jost.
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Details
- Family
- Jost
- Category
- Sans-serif
- Designers
- Owen Earl
- Added to Google Fonts
- February 11, 2020
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- cyrillic, latin, latin-ext
About the Jost font
Jost is a sans-serif typeface designed by Owen Earl, first released to Google Fonts on February 2020. It ships with 9 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 66% 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 Jost against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Jost 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.