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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!
5 weights · variable · Sans-serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Quicksand
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
0.741
stroke weight
10% of cap height
0.104
contrast
Low
0.056
letter width
Normal
0.995
Web embed
Use Quicksand on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Quicksand:wght@300;400;500;600&display=swap');
/* Quicksand */
body {
font-family: 'Quicksand', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Pairing
What goes with Quicksand
A curated serif companion that balances the tone of Quicksand.
Details
- Family
- Quicksand
- Category
- Sans-serif
- Designers
- Andrew Paglinawan
- Added to Google Fonts
- October 19, 2011
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- latin, latin-ext, vietnamese
About the Quicksand font
Quicksand is a sans-serif typeface designed by Andrew Paglinawan, first released to Google Fonts on October 2011. It ships with 5 weights · 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 74% 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 Quicksand against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Quicksand 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.