Specimen
Handgloves
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 · Handwriting
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Shadows Into Light
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
High
1.016
stroke weight
12% of cap height
0.115
contrast
Medium
0.333
letter width
Condensed
0.735
Web embed
Use Shadows Into Light on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Shadows+Into+Light&display=swap');
/* Shadows Into Light */
body {
font-family: 'Shadows Into Light', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Pairing
What goes with Shadows Into Light
A curated serif companion that balances the tone of Shadows Into Light.
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Details
- Family
- Shadows Into Light
- Category
- Handwriting
- Designers
- Kimberly Geswein
- Added to Google Fonts
- June 8, 2011
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- latin, latin-ext
About the Shadows Into Light font
Shadows Into Light is a handwriting typeface designed by Kimberly Geswein, first released to Google Fonts on June 2011. 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 high x-height at 102% of the cap height, condensed 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 Shadows Into Light against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Shadows Into Light 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.