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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!
1 weight · Display
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Macondo Swash Caps
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
0.659
stroke weight
12% of cap height
0.124
contrast
Low
0.200
letter width
Normal
0.881
Web embed
Use Macondo Swash Caps on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Macondo+Swash+Caps&display=swap');
/* Macondo Swash Caps */
body {
font-family: 'Macondo Swash Caps', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Details
- Family
- Macondo Swash Caps
- Category
- Display
- Designers
- John Vargas Beltrán
- Added to Google Fonts
- January 18, 2012
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- latin
About the Macondo Swash Caps font
Macondo Swash Caps is a display typeface designed by John Vargas Beltrán, first released to Google Fonts on January 2012. 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 low x-height at 66% 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 Macondo Swash Caps against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Macondo Swash Caps 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.