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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 Public 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
0.715
stroke weight
16% of cap height
0.164
contrast
Low
0.216
letter width
Normal
1.008
Web embed
Use Public Sans on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Public+Sans:wght@100;200;300;400;ital@1&display=swap');
/* Public Sans */
body {
font-family: 'Public Sans', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Details
- Family
- Public Sans
- Category
- Sans-serif
- Designers
- USWDS, Dan Williams, Pablo Impallari
- Added to Google Fonts
- June 7, 2019
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- latin, latin-ext, vietnamese
About the Public Sans font
Public Sans is a sans-serif typeface designed by USWDS and Dan Williams and Pablo Impallari, first released to Google Fonts on June 2019. 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 72% 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 Public Sans against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Public 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.