Notes

Seven articles read from the measurements: what is typical, where the extremes are and how the library has changed. Every figure comes from the files as of 28 October 2026.

• 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.