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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!
5 weights · Sans-serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Zen Kaku Gothic Antique
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
0.684
stroke weight
10% of cap height
0.102
contrast
Low
0.081
letter width
Normal
0.923
Web embed
Use Zen Kaku Gothic Antique on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Zen+Kaku+Gothic+Antique:wght@300;400;500;700&display=swap');
/* Zen Kaku Gothic Antique */
body {
font-family: 'Zen Kaku Gothic Antique', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Details
- Family
- Zen Kaku Gothic Antique
- Category
- Sans-serif
- Designers
- Yoshimichi Ohira
- Added to Google Fonts
- August 31, 2021
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- cyrillic, japanese, latin, latin-ext
About the Zen Kaku Gothic Antique font
Zen Kaku Gothic Antique is a sans-serif typeface designed by Yoshimichi Ohira, first released to Google Fonts on August 2021. It ships with 5 weights 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 68% 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 Zen Kaku Gothic Antique against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Zen Kaku Gothic Antique 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.