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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!
9 weights · italic · variable · Sans-serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Overpass
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
0.730
stroke weight
15% of cap height
0.152
contrast
Low
0.085
letter width
Normal
0.961
Web embed
Use Overpass on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Overpass:wght@100;200;300;400;ital@1&display=swap');
/* Overpass */
body {
font-family: 'Overpass', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Details
- Family
- Overpass
- Category
- Sans-serif
- Designers
- Delve Withrington, Dave Bailey, Thomas Jockin
- Added to Google Fonts
- December 2, 2016
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, latin, latin-ext, vietnamese
About the Overpass font
Overpass is a sans-serif typeface designed by Delve Withrington and Dave Bailey and Thomas Jockin, first released to Google Fonts on December 2016. It ships with 9 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 medium x-height at 73% 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 Overpass against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Overpass 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.