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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!
9 weights · italic · variable · Sans-serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Urbanist
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
0.716
stroke weight
12% of cap height
0.121
contrast
Low
0.000
letter width
Normal
0.961
Web embed
Use Urbanist on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Urbanist:wght@100;200;300;400;ital@1&display=swap');
/* Urbanist */
body {
font-family: 'Urbanist', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Pairing
What goes with Urbanist
A curated serif companion that balances the tone of Urbanist.
Details
- Family
- Urbanist
- Category
- Sans-serif
- Designers
- Corey Hu
- Added to Google Fonts
- June 2, 2021
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- latin, latin-ext
About the Urbanist font
Urbanist is a sans-serif typeface designed by Corey Hu, first released to Google Fonts on June 2021. It ships with 9 weights · italic · 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 72% 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 Urbanist against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Urbanist 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.