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!
1 weight · Handwriting
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Long Cang
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
High
0.809
stroke weight
11% of cap height
0.108
contrast
Low
0.200
letter width
Condensed
0.755
Web embed
Use Long Cang on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Long+Cang&display=swap');
/* Long Cang */
body {
font-family: 'Long Cang', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Pairing
What goes with Long Cang
A curated serif companion that balances the tone of Long Cang.
Details
- Family
- Long Cang
- Category
- Handwriting
- Designers
- Chen Xiaomin
- Added to Google Fonts
- March 17, 2019
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- chinese-simplified, latin
About the Long Cang font
Long Cang is a handwriting typeface designed by Chen Xiaomin, first released to Google Fonts on March 2019. It ships with 1 weight 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 high x-height at 81% 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 Long Cang against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Long Cang 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.