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Handgloves
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 · Serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Zen Old Mincho
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
Low
0.592
stroke weight
12% of cap height
0.121
contrast
High
0.672
letter width
Normal
0.905
Web embed
Use Zen Old Mincho on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Zen+Old+Mincho:wght@400;500;600;700&display=swap');
/* Zen Old Mincho */
body {
font-family: 'Zen Old Mincho', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Details
- Family
- Zen Old Mincho
- Category
- Serif
- Designers
- Yoshimichi Ohira
- Added to Google Fonts
- August 31, 2021
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- cyrillic, greek, japanese, latin, latin-ext
About the Zen Old Mincho font
Zen Old Mincho is a 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 low x-height at 59% of the cap height, normal letter forms and high 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 Old Mincho against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Zen Old Mincho 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.