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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 · Handwriting
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Waiting for the Sunrise
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
0.779
stroke weight
7% of cap height
0.067
contrast
Low
0.000
letter width
Condensed
0.772
Web embed
Use Waiting for the Sunrise on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Waiting+for+the+Sunrise&display=swap');
/* Waiting for the Sunrise */
body {
font-family: 'Waiting for the Sunrise', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Details
- Family
- Waiting for the Sunrise
- Category
- Handwriting
- Designers
- Kimberly Geswein
- Added to Google Fonts
- April 14, 2011
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- latin, latin-ext
About the Waiting for the Sunrise font
Waiting for the Sunrise is a handwriting typeface designed by Kimberly Geswein, first released to Google Fonts on April 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 78% 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 Waiting for the Sunrise against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Waiting for the Sunrise 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.