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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 · Handwriting

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Measured shape

The proportions of Petit Formal Script

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

0.742

stroke weight

15% of cap height

0.147

contrast

Low

0.200

letter width

Normal

1.149

Web embed

Use Petit Formal Script on your site

@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Petit+Formal+Script&display=swap');

/* Petit Formal Script */
body {
  font-family: 'Petit Formal Script', system-ui, sans-serif;
  font-weight: 400;
}

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Details

Family
Petit Formal Script
Category
Handwriting
Designers
Impallari Type
Added to Google Fonts
September 7, 2012
Licence
Open source · free for commercial use
Scripts
latin, latin-ext

About the Petit Formal Script font

Petit Formal Script is a handwriting typeface designed by Impallari Type, first released to Google Fonts on September 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 74% 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 Petit Formal Script against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.

Want to check whether Petit Formal Script 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.