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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 · italic · Sans-serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of PT Sans
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
0.714
stroke weight
14% of cap height
0.137
contrast
Low
0.160
letter width
Normal
0.916
Web embed
Use PT Sans on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=PT+Sans:wght@400;700;ital@1&display=swap');
/* PT Sans */
body {
font-family: 'PT Sans', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Pairing
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Details
- Family
- PT Sans
- Category
- Sans-serif
- Designers
- ParaType
- Added to Google Fonts
- September 21, 2010
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, latin, latin-ext
About the PT Sans font
PT Sans is a sans-serif typeface designed by ParaType, first released to Google Fonts on September 2010. It ships with 2 weights · italic 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 71% 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 PT Sans against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether PT Sans 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.