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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 Pliant
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
0.728
stroke weight
18% of cap height
0.175
contrast
Low
0.213
letter width
Normal
1.021
Web embed
Use Pliant on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Pliant:wght@100;200;300;400;ital@1&display=swap');
/* Pliant */
body {
font-family: 'Pliant', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Pairing
What goes with Pliant
A curated serif companion that balances the tone of Pliant.
Details
- Family
- Pliant
- Category
- Sans-serif
- Designers
- Non Foundry, Jona Saucedo
- Added to Google Fonts
- June 5, 2026
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, greek, greek-ext, latin, latin-ext
About the Pliant font
Pliant is a sans-serif typeface designed by Non Foundry and Jona Saucedo, first released to Google Fonts on June 2026. 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 Pliant against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Pliant 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.