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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!
7 weights · italic · Serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Spectral
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
0.682
stroke weight
12% of cap height
0.123
contrast
Medium
0.519
letter width
Normal
0.957
Web embed
Use Spectral on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Spectral:wght@200;300;400;500;ital@1&display=swap');
/* Spectral */
body {
font-family: 'Spectral', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Pairing
What goes with Spectral
A curated sans-serif companion that balances the tone of Spectral.
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Details
- Family
- Spectral
- Category
- Serif
- Designers
- Production Type
- Added to Google Fonts
- June 12, 2017
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, latin, latin-ext, vietnamese
About the Spectral font
Spectral is a serif typeface designed by Production Type, first released to Google Fonts on June 2017. It ships with 7 weights · italic 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 68% 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 Spectral against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Spectral 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.