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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!
8 weights · variable · Sans-serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Recursive
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
0.761
stroke weight
17% of cap height
0.169
contrast
Low
0.091
letter width
Normal
1.073
Web embed
Use Recursive on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Recursive:wght@300;400;500;600&display=swap');
/* Recursive */
body {
font-family: 'Recursive', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Pairing
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Details
- Family
- Recursive
- Category
- Sans-serif
- Designers
- Arrow Type, Stephen Nixon
- Added to Google Fonts
- June 28, 2019
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- cyrillic-ext, latin, latin-ext, vietnamese
About the Recursive font
Recursive is a sans-serif typeface designed by Arrow Type and Stephen Nixon, first released to Google Fonts on June 2019. It ships with 8 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 76% 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 Recursive against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Recursive 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.