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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!
8 weights · italic · variable · Sans-serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Source Sans 3
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
0.741
stroke weight
14% of cap height
0.136
contrast
Low
0.196
letter width
Normal
0.905
Web embed
Use Source Sans 3 on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Source+Sans+3:wght@200;300;400;500;ital@1&display=swap');
/* Source Sans 3 */
body {
font-family: 'Source Sans 3', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Details
- Family
- Source Sans 3
- Category
- Sans-serif
- Designers
- Paul D. Hunt
- Added to Google Fonts
- September 17, 2021
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, greek, greek-ext, latin, latin-ext, vietnamese
About the Source Sans 3 font
Source Sans 3 is a sans-serif typeface designed by Paul D. Hunt, first released to Google Fonts on September 2021. It ships with 8 weights · italic · 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 74% 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 Source Sans 3 against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Source Sans 3 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.