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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 Voltaire
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
0.667
stroke weight
16% of cap height
0.160
contrast
Low
0.089
letter width
Condensed
0.768
Web embed
Use Voltaire on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Voltaire&display=swap');
/* Voltaire */
body {
font-family: 'Voltaire', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Details
- Family
- Voltaire
- Category
- Sans-serif
- Designers
- Yvonne Schüttler
- Added to Google Fonts
- August 17, 2011
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- latin, latin-ext, vietnamese
About the Voltaire font
Voltaire is a sans-serif typeface designed by Yvonne Schüttler, first released to Google Fonts on August 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 medium x-height at 67% of the cap height, condensed 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 Voltaire against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Voltaire 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.