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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!
2 weights · Sans-serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Play
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
0.746
stroke weight
15% of cap height
0.148
contrast
Medium
0.364
letter width
Normal
0.960
Web embed
Use Play on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Play:wght@400;700&display=swap');
/* Play */
body {
font-family: 'Play', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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What goes with Play
A curated serif companion that balances the tone of Play.
Details
- Family
- Play
- Category
- Sans-serif
- Designers
- Jonas Hecksher
- Added to Google Fonts
- May 4, 2011
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, greek, latin, latin-ext, vietnamese
About the Play font
Play is a sans-serif typeface designed by Jonas Hecksher, first released to Google Fonts on May 2011. It ships with 2 weights 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 75% of the cap height, normal 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 Play against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Play 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.