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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!
4 weights · Serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Scheherazade New
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
0.675
stroke weight
10% of cap height
0.104
contrast
High
0.614
letter width
Condensed
0.792
Web embed
Use Scheherazade New on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Scheherazade+New:wght@400;500;600;700&display=swap');
/* Scheherazade New */
body {
font-family: 'Scheherazade New', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Details
- Family
- Scheherazade New
- Category
- Serif
- Designers
- SIL International
- Added to Google Fonts
- May 12, 2021
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- arabic, latin, latin-ext
About the Scheherazade New font
Scheherazade New is a serif typeface designed by SIL International, first released to Google Fonts on May 2021. It ships with 4 weights 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 68% of the cap height, condensed letter forms and high stroke contrast. Those three numbers are what the font finder uses to narrow an image down to the closest matches, so you can compare Scheherazade New against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Scheherazade New 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.