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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!
5 weights · italic · Sans-serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Lato
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
0.707
stroke weight
15% of cap height
0.152
contrast
Low
0.236
letter width
Normal
0.943
Web embed
Use Lato on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Lato:wght@100;300;400;700;ital@1&display=swap');
/* Lato */
body {
font-family: 'Lato', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Free alternatives
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Lato can stand in for these commercial typefaces at a fraction of the price — licence-free.
Pairing
What goes with Lato
A curated serif companion that balances the tone of Lato.
Same designers
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Details
- Family
- Lato
- Category
- Sans-serif
- Designers
- Łukasz Dziedzic
- Added to Google Fonts
- December 15, 2010
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- latin, latin-ext
About the Lato font
Lato is a sans-serif typeface designed by Łukasz Dziedzic, first released to Google Fonts on December 2010. It ships with 5 weights · italic 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 Lato against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Lato 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.