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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 · variable · Sans-serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Science Gothic
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
0.714
stroke weight
21% of cap height
0.212
contrast
Low
0.107
letter width
Expanded
1.179
Web embed
Use Science Gothic on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Science+Gothic:wght@100;200;300;400&display=swap');
/* Science Gothic */
body {
font-family: 'Science Gothic', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Pairing
What goes with Science Gothic
A curated serif companion that balances the tone of Science Gothic.
Details
- Family
- Science Gothic
- Category
- Sans-serif
- Designers
- Thomas Phinney, Vassil Kateliev, Brandon Buerkle
- Added to Google Fonts
- November 19, 2025
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, latin, latin-ext, vietnamese
About the Science Gothic font
Science Gothic is a sans-serif typeface designed by Thomas Phinney and Vassil Kateliev and Brandon Buerkle, first released to Google Fonts on November 2025. It ships with 9 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 71% of the cap height, expanded 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 Science Gothic against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Science Gothic 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.