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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!
5 weights · Serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Solway
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
15% of cap height
0.153
contrast
Low
0.145
letter width
Normal
1.049
Web embed
Use Solway on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Solway:wght@300;400;500;700&display=swap');
/* Solway */
body {
font-family: 'Solway', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Pairing
What goes with Solway
A curated sans-serif companion that balances the tone of Solway.
Details
- Family
- Solway
- Category
- Serif
- Designers
- Mariya Lish, The Northern Block
- Added to Google Fonts
- August 6, 2018
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- latin
About the Solway font
Solway is a serif typeface designed by Mariya Lish and The Northern Block, first released to Google Fonts on August 2018. It ships with 5 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 71% of the cap height, normal 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 Solway against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Solway 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.