Specimen
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!
3 weights · Handwriting
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Kalam
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
0.706
stroke weight
17% of cap height
0.169
contrast
Low
0.200
letter width
Normal
0.862
Web embed
Use Kalam on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Kalam:wght@300;400;700&display=swap');
/* Kalam */
body {
font-family: 'Kalam', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Details
- Family
- Kalam
- Category
- Handwriting
- Designers
- Indian Type Foundry
- Added to Google Fonts
- October 17, 2014
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- devanagari, latin, latin-ext
About the Kalam font
Kalam is a handwriting typeface designed by Indian Type Foundry, first released to Google Fonts on October 2014. It ships with 3 weights 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 Kalam against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Kalam 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.