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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 · Serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Sawarabi Mincho
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
0.688
stroke weight
16% of cap height
0.155
contrast
Medium
0.541
letter width
Normal
1.023
Web embed
Use Sawarabi Mincho on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Sawarabi+Mincho&display=swap');
/* Sawarabi Mincho */
body {
font-family: 'Sawarabi Mincho', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Details
- Family
- Sawarabi Mincho
- Category
- Serif
- Designers
- mshio
- Added to Google Fonts
- May 17, 2018
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- braille, japanese, latin, latin-ext
About the Sawarabi Mincho font
Sawarabi Mincho is a serif typeface designed by mshio, first released to Google Fonts on May 2018. 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 69% of the cap height, normal 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 Sawarabi Mincho against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Sawarabi Mincho 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.