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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 Saira
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
14% of cap height
0.142
contrast
Low
0.143
letter width
Normal
1.003
Web embed
Use Saira on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Saira:wght@100;200;300;400;ital@1&display=swap');
/* Saira */
body {
font-family: 'Saira', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Details
- Family
- Saira
- Category
- Sans-serif
- Designers
- Omnibus-Type
- Added to Google Fonts
- July 31, 2017
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- latin, latin-ext, vietnamese
About the Saira font
Saira is a sans-serif typeface designed by Omnibus-Type, first released to Google Fonts on July 2017. 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 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 Saira against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Saira 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.