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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!
2 weights · variable · Handwriting
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Kapakana
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
0.485
stroke weight
5% of cap height
0.054
contrast
Low
0.200
letter width
Condensed
0.583
Web embed
Use Kapakana on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Kapakana:wght@300;400&display=swap');
/* Kapakana */
body {
font-family: 'Kapakana', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Pairing
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Details
- Family
- Kapakana
- Category
- Handwriting
- Designers
- Kousuke Nagai
- Added to Google Fonts
- May 20, 2025
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- japanese, latin, latin-ext
About the Kapakana font
Kapakana is a handwriting typeface designed by Kousuke Nagai, first released to Google Fonts on May 2025. It ships with 2 weights · 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 49% 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 Kapakana against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Kapakana 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.