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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!
1 weight · Sans-serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Special Gothic Expanded One
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
0.724
stroke weight
34% of cap height
0.341
contrast
Medium
0.325
letter width
Expanded
1.299
Web embed
Use Special Gothic Expanded One on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Special+Gothic+Expanded+One&display=swap');
/* Special Gothic Expanded One */
body {
font-family: 'Special Gothic Expanded One', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Details
- Family
- Special Gothic Expanded One
- 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 Expanded One font
Special Gothic Expanded One is a sans-serif typeface designed by Alistair McCready, first released to Google Fonts on April 2025. 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 72% of the cap height, expanded 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 Special Gothic Expanded One against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Special Gothic Expanded One 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.