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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 Work Sans
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
0.758
stroke weight
14% of cap height
0.137
contrast
Low
0.125
letter width
Normal
1.043
Web embed
Use Work Sans on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Work+Sans:wght@100;200;300;400;ital@1&display=swap');
/* Work Sans */
body {
font-family: 'Work Sans', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Details
- Family
- Work Sans
- Category
- Sans-serif
- Designers
- Wei Huang
- Added to Google Fonts
- July 8, 2015
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- latin, latin-ext, vietnamese
About the Work Sans font
Work Sans is a sans-serif typeface designed by Wei Huang, first released to Google Fonts on July 2015. 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 76% 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 Work Sans against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Work Sans 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.