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 · Serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Marcellus SC
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
0.750
stroke weight
18% of cap height
0.179
contrast
High
0.636
letter width
Normal
0.988
Web embed
Use Marcellus SC on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Marcellus+SC&display=swap');
/* Marcellus SC */
body {
font-family: 'Marcellus SC', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Free alternatives
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Marcellus SC can stand in for these commercial typefaces at a fraction of the price — licence-free.
Pairing
What goes with Marcellus SC
A curated sans-serif companion that balances the tone of Marcellus SC.
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Details
- Family
- Marcellus SC
- Category
- Serif
- Designers
- Astigmatic
- Added to Google Fonts
- May 9, 2012
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- latin, latin-ext
About the Marcellus SC font
Marcellus SC is a serif typeface designed by Astigmatic, first released to Google Fonts on May 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 medium x-height at 75% 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 Marcellus SC against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Marcellus SC 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.