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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 Original Surfer
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
0.669
stroke weight
20% of cap height
0.198
contrast
High
0.649
letter width
Normal
0.980
Web embed
Use Original Surfer on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Original+Surfer&display=swap');
/* Original Surfer */
body {
font-family: 'Original Surfer', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Details
- Family
- Original Surfer
- Category
- Display
- Designers
- Astigmatic
- Added to Google Fonts
- December 7, 2011
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- latin, latin-ext
About the Original Surfer font
Original Surfer is a display typeface designed by Astigmatic, first released to Google Fonts on December 2011. 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 67% 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 Original Surfer against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Original Surfer 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.