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 · Display
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Special Elite
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
14% of cap height
0.137
contrast
Low
0.200
letter width
Normal
1.098
Web embed
Use Special Elite on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Special+Elite&display=swap');
/* Special Elite */
body {
font-family: 'Special Elite', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Pairing
What goes with Special Elite
A curated serif companion that balances the tone of Special Elite.
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Details
- Family
- Special Elite
- Category
- Display
- Designers
- Astigmatic
- Added to Google Fonts
- April 20, 2011
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- latin, latin-ext
About the Special Elite font
Special Elite is a display typeface designed by Astigmatic, first released to Google Fonts on April 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 medium x-height at 73% 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 Special Elite against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Special Elite 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.