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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!
8 weights · italic · variable · Sans-serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Zalando Sans SemiExpanded
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
0.720
stroke weight
16% of cap height
0.164
contrast
Low
0.241
letter width
Normal
1.075
Web embed
Use Zalando Sans SemiExpanded on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Zalando+Sans+SemiExpanded:wght@200;300;400;500;ital@1&display=swap');
/* Zalando Sans SemiExpanded */
body {
font-family: 'Zalando Sans SemiExpanded', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Details
- Family
- Zalando Sans SemiExpanded
- Category
- Sans-serif
- Designers
- Jakob Ekelund, KH Type, Zalando
- Added to Google Fonts
- September 11, 2025
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- latin, latin-ext, vietnamese
About the Zalando Sans SemiExpanded font
Zalando Sans SemiExpanded is a sans-serif typeface designed by Jakob Ekelund and KH Type and Zalando, first released to Google Fonts on September 2025. It ships with 8 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 Zalando Sans SemiExpanded against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Zalando Sans SemiExpanded 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.