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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 · Serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Source Serif 4
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
0.734
stroke weight
16% of cap height
0.155
contrast
Medium
0.466
letter width
Normal
1.049
Web embed
Use Source Serif 4 on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Source+Serif+4:wght@200;300;400;500;ital@1&display=swap');
/* Source Serif 4 */
body {
font-family: 'Source Serif 4', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Pairing
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Details
- Family
- Source Serif 4
- Category
- Serif
- Designers
- Frank Grießhammer
- Added to Google Fonts
- November 16, 2021
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, greek, latin, latin-ext, vietnamese
About the Source Serif 4 font
Source Serif 4 is a serif typeface designed by Frank Grießhammer, first released to Google Fonts on November 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 73% of the cap height, normal 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 Source Serif 4 against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Source Serif 4 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.