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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!
1 weight · Display
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Uncial Antiqua
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
Low
0.570
stroke weight
27% of cap height
0.270
contrast
High
0.770
letter width
Expanded
1.216
Web embed
Use Uncial Antiqua on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Uncial+Antiqua&display=swap');
/* Uncial Antiqua */
body {
font-family: 'Uncial Antiqua', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Details
- Family
- Uncial Antiqua
- Category
- Display
- Designers
- Astigmatic
- Added to Google Fonts
- December 19, 2011
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- latin, latin-ext
About the Uncial Antiqua font
Uncial Antiqua is a display typeface designed by Astigmatic, first released to Google Fonts on December 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 low x-height at 57% of the cap height, expanded letter forms and high stroke contrast. Those three numbers are what the font finder uses to narrow an image down to the closest matches, so you can compare Uncial Antiqua against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Uncial Antiqua 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.