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 Short Stack
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
0.854
stroke weight
17% of cap height
0.167
contrast
Low
0.029
letter width
Expanded
1.194
Web embed
Use Short Stack on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Short+Stack&display=swap');
/* Short Stack */
body {
font-family: 'Short Stack', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
Fonts like Short Stack
Pairing
What goes with Short Stack
A curated serif companion that balances the tone of Short Stack.
Same designers
More by James Grieshaber
Details
- Family
- Short Stack
- Category
- Handwriting
- Designers
- James Grieshaber
- Added to Google Fonts
- August 17, 2011
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- latin
About the Short Stack font
Short Stack is a handwriting typeface designed by James Grieshaber, first released to Google Fonts on August 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 85% 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 Short Stack against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Short Stack 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.