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Oswald
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48px
Styles
Extra Light200
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 0123456789
Light300
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 0123456789
Regular400
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 0123456789
Medium500
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 0123456789
Semi Bold600
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 0123456789
Bold700
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 0123456789
Sample characters
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Uppercase
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
Lowercase
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
Numbers
0123456789
Symbols
!@#$%^&*()_+-=[]{}|;:,.<>?
About
Oswald is an open-source sans-serif font by Vernon Adams, Kalapi Gajjar, Cyreal. This release includes 1 original font files, a variable weight range of 200–700, and 850 encoded characters in the default upright face. Supported subsets: cyrillic, cyrillic ext, latin, latin ext, vietnamese. Preview your own text and download the original files with their SIL Open Font License 1.1 and source record.
Choosing and pairing this font
Design characteristics
Oswald reinterprets the narrow Alternate Gothic tradition for screen use.
Where to use it · editorial suggestions
Try it for event titles and compact section headings, rather than dense article paragraphs.
A starting layout
Start a poster heading at 56 px / 1.05 with two lines maximum; keep dates and venue information in a wider body face.
What to check
Avoid compensating for long text by squeezing letter spacing. Rewrite the heading or add a deliberate line break.
Pairing suggestion
Pair with Lato for descriptions, letting the width contrast establish hierarchy.
Design background: Oswald — Google Fonts project. Use cases, sizes and pairings are our editorial suggestions; test them with your own content.
Category
Sans-serif
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
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