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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 · Serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Petrona
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
0.691
stroke weight
13% of cap height
0.126
contrast
High
0.615
letter width
Normal
0.939
Web embed
Use Petrona on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Petrona:wght@100;200;300;400;ital@1&display=swap');
/* Petrona */
body {
font-family: 'Petrona', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Pairing
What goes with Petrona
A curated sans-serif companion that balances the tone of Petrona.
Details
- Family
- Petrona
- Category
- Serif
- Designers
- Ringo R. Seeber
- Added to Google Fonts
- July 14, 2020
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- latin, latin-ext, vietnamese
About the Petrona font
Petrona is a serif typeface designed by Ringo R. Seeber, first released to Google Fonts on July 2020. 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 69% 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 Petrona against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Petrona 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.