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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!
4 weights · variable · Sans-serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Special Gothic
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
0.710
stroke weight
14% of cap height
0.144
contrast
Low
0.200
letter width
Normal
0.903
Web embed
Use Special Gothic on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Special+Gothic:wght@400;500;600;700&display=swap');
/* Special Gothic */
body {
font-family: 'Special Gothic', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Details
- Family
- Special Gothic
- Category
- Sans-serif
- Designers
- Alistair McCready
- Added to Google Fonts
- April 7, 2025
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- latin, latin-ext
About the Special Gothic font
Special Gothic is a sans-serif typeface designed by Alistair McCready, first released to Google Fonts on April 2025. It ships with 4 weights · 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 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 Special Gothic against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Special Gothic 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.