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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!
1 weight · Sans-serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Rationale
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
0.726
stroke weight
14% of cap height
0.136
contrast
Medium
0.271
letter width
Condensed
0.776
Web embed
Use Rationale on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Rationale&display=swap');
/* Rationale */
body {
font-family: 'Rationale', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Details
- Family
- Rationale
- Category
- Sans-serif
- Designers
- Cyreal
- Added to Google Fonts
- August 3, 2011
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- latin
About the Rationale font
Rationale is a sans-serif typeface designed by Cyreal, first released to Google Fonts on August 2011. It ships with 1 weight 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, condensed 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 Rationale against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Rationale 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.