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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!
6 weights · variable · Sans-serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Oswald
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
0.714
stroke weight
21% of cap height
0.209
contrast
Medium
0.266
letter width
Condensed
0.762
Web embed
Use Oswald on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Oswald:wght@200;300;400;500&display=swap');
/* Oswald */
body {
font-family: 'Oswald', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Details
- Family
- Oswald
- Category
- Sans-serif
- Designers
- Vernon Adams, Kalapi Gajjar, Cyreal
- Added to Google Fonts
- February 29, 2012
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, latin, latin-ext, vietnamese
About the Oswald font
Oswald is a sans-serif typeface designed by Vernon Adams and Kalapi Gajjar and Cyreal, first released to Google Fonts on February 2012. It ships with 6 weights · 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 medium x-height at 71% of the cap height, condensed 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 Oswald against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Oswald 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.