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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!
4 weights · italic · variable · Serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Libre Baskerville
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
0.688
stroke weight
18% of cap height
0.179
contrast
High
0.559
letter width
Normal
1.119
Web embed
Use Libre Baskerville on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Libre+Baskerville:wght@400;500;600;700;ital@1&display=swap');
/* Libre Baskerville */
body {
font-family: 'Libre Baskerville', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Details
- Family
- Libre Baskerville
- Category
- Serif
- Designers
- Impallari Type
- Added to Google Fonts
- November 30, 2012
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- latin, latin-ext
About the Libre Baskerville font
Libre Baskerville is a serif typeface designed by Impallari Type, first released to Google Fonts on November 2012. It ships with 4 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 medium x-height at 69% of the cap height, normal letter forms and high stroke contrast. Those three numbers are what the font finder uses to narrow an image down to the closest matches, so you can compare Libre Baskerville against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Libre Baskerville 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.