Every Google Fonts family, measured from its files

All 1,899 typeface families in the library, each opened and measured: x-height, width, ink, weights, scripts and variable axes, read from the font files in the google/fonts repository on 28 October 2026.

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Each dot is one family at its regular weight, in units per 1,000 em. Higher dots have taller lowercase; dots further right have wider letters. Six families are labelled as reference points. Not drawn: 14 families with values outside the frame and the 112 designs without ascenders.

RecordsOf all 1,899 families, each set in its own outlines

Tallest x-heightBoldonse · 870 Shortest x-heightYuyu Short · 151 Widest lowercaseBBH Bartle · 1,319 Narrowest lowercaseDorsa · 183 Most glyphsCactus Classical Serif · 58,570 glyphs Most variable axesRoboto Flex · 13 axes

Added by year558 of them are variable fonts today

ScriptsFamilies per subset, beyond basic Latin

Latin Extended1,525

Vietnamese532

Cyrillic306

Cyrillic Extended243

Greek128

Greek Extended76

Math73

Japanese69

Symbols69

Devanagari65

Hebrew62

Arabic54

All 180 subsets

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NotesRead from the measurements

How tall the lowercase is across Google Fonts
The median Google Fonts family has an x-height of 505 per 1,000 em. Measured from the font files in google/fonts, 28 October 2026.
Wide and narrow: lowercase width across the library
Average lowercase width of 1,899 Google Fonts families: class medians, the widest and narrowest designs and how width relates to x-height.
Variable fonts in the library and the axes they use
558 Google Fonts families are variable fonts. Which axes they use, the common weight ranges, which classes are variable and how the share grew.
Scripts beyond Latin: who covers what
How many Google Fonts families cover Cyrillic, Greek, Vietnamese, Arabic, Japanese and other scripts, with glyph counts and the rarest subsets.
How the library grew, year by year
Google Fonts families by year added from 2010 to 2026: the early wave, the Noto year and the growth of character sets.
Which OpenType features the files declare
How many Google Fonts families declare kerning, ligatures, fractions, tabular and old-style figures, small capitals and stylistic sets.
Monospaced families, measured side by side
All 44 monospaced Google Fonts families with cell width, x-height, weights, italics and the zero feature, measured from the files.