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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!
7 weights · italic · variable · Serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Newsreader
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
0.652
stroke weight
12% of cap height
0.120
contrast
Medium
0.481
letter width
Normal
0.925
Web embed
Use Newsreader on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Newsreader:wght@200;300;400;500;ital@1&display=swap');
/* Newsreader */
body {
font-family: 'Newsreader', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Details
- Family
- Newsreader
- Category
- Serif
- Designers
- Production Type
- Added to Google Fonts
- July 1, 2020
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- latin, latin-ext, vietnamese
About the Newsreader font
Newsreader is a serif typeface designed by Production Type, first released to Google Fonts on July 2020. It ships with 7 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 low x-height at 65% of the cap height, normal letter forms and medium stroke contrast. Those three numbers are what the font finder uses to narrow an image down to the closest matches, so you can compare Newsreader against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Newsreader 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.