Sans serif · Peter Wiegel
Amazonas
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CSSfont-family: 'Amazonas', sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.1;
Amazonas is a free sans serif by Peter Wiegel, from the designer’s own site. Among the 697 sans serifs on FontKind, Amazonas has an x-height taller than 81%, is of average width and, at its regular weight, is lighter than 83%. Its thickest strokes are 1.0 times its thinnest: nearly even strokes.
01 / Light table
Laid on top of Fredoka
Amazonas on one light table with its two closest fonts, Fredoka (85 out of 100) and Espresso Dolce (82). Fredoka is 24% heavier, with an x-height 11% shorter; Espresso Dolce is 51% heavier and 11% narrower, with an x-height 17% shorter.
Amazonas and Fredoka laid on top of each other.
Ink shared with AmazonasFredoka…
Most different letters first; the figure is the share of ink the fonts have in common. Where the fonts agree the letters cancel to black: every white sliver is a real difference.
02 / Letters
The Amazonas alphabet
Capitals, lowercase, figures and signs · weight 400
Tap the letters you like, here and in other fonts, to find the fonts whose letters look most like them.
- &
- ?
- !
- @
- %
- (
- )
03 / Sizes
Amazonas at every size
1 weight (400) · six sizes, in your words
- 12 px
- 16 px
- 24 px
- 36 px
- 48 px
- 72 px
04 / Facts
Who made Amazonas, and can you use it?
- Designer
- Peter Wiegel
- Kind
- Sans serif
- Styles
- 1 weight (400)
- From
- Peter Wiegel
- Character sets
- latin
- Licence
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
Can I use it?
- Commercial use
- Yes.
- Logos
- Yes.
- Websites and apps
- Yes. Self-hosted.
- PDFs and documents
- Yes.
- Changes
- Yes, under another name. Not as “Amazonas”: the licence reserves the name.
- Sharing the files
- Yes, but not for sale. With the licence.
Amazonas is under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. This is a plain summary, not legal advice: the licence itself decides.
Already in your apps?
- Google Docs
- Not verified. Docs adds Google Fonts, and Amazonas comes from Peter Wiegel. Google’s guide
- Word, PowerPoint
- Not verified. Install it from Peter Wiegel first. Microsoft’s list
- Figma
- Not verified. Search its font menu, or install it. Figma’s help
- Canva
- Not verified. Search its font menu for Amazonas, or upload it with Canva Pro. Canva’s help
- Cricut
- Once installed. Design Space lists Amazonas under System. Fonts for Cricut →
From each app’s own font list or help pages.
05 / Measurements
Amazonas, measured
Taken from the font file's own outlines, regular style
- x-height
- 54.1% of the emlowercase x
- Cap height
- 68.3% of the emcapitals
- x / cap
- 0.79lowercase against capitals
- Width
- 49.5% of the emaverage lowercase
- Ink
- 36%letter box filled
- Contrast
- 1.00 : 1nearly even strokes
Where it stands among sans serifs
Ranked against all 697 sans serifs on FontKind
x-heightLarger than 81% of sans serifs
WidthNear the middle of sans serifs
InkLighter than 83% of sans serifs
ContrastMore even than 89% of sans serifs
06 / Similar fonts
Fonts similar to Amazonas
Matched letter by letter · its own family apart
- Fredoka8524% heavier · x-height 11% shorter
- Espresso Dolce8251% heavier · x-height 17% shorter · 11% narrower
- Manjari80x-height 8% shorter
- Quicksand8017% lighter · 5% wider · x-height 5% shorter
- Comfortaa7318% wider
- Zen Maru Gothic73x-height 11% shorter · 11% lighter
All 100 fonts similar to Amazonas →Compare side by side →Get Amazonas on Peter Wiegel
07 / Swap
Swap Amazonas without a jump
Running text within 3% of the width, x-height within 5%
- National Park63text 2.1% wider · x-height 3.0% shorter
- Gowun Dodum31text 2.2% narrower · same x-height
- Asap31text 1.9% wider · x-height 3.0% shorter
Fallback while it loads
Until Amazonas loads, this sets Arial in its place at 98.5% of its size, so running text keeps Amazonas’s width and lines keep their height: nothing moves when it arrives.
@font-face {
font-family: 'Amazonas Fallback';
src: local('Arial');
size-adjust: 98.46%;
ascent-override: 76.18%;
descent-override: 25.39%;
line-gap-override: 0.91%;
}
font-family: 'Amazonas', 'Amazonas Fallback', sans-serif;08 / Questions
Questions about Amazonas
Answered from its licence, Peter Wiegel and each app’s own font list
Is Amazonas free for commercial use?
Yes. Amazonas is under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 , which allows commercial use at any scale, logos, websites, apps and PDFs included; a changed version may not be called “Amazonas”.
How do I download and install Amazonas?
Amazonas comes free from Peter Wiegel . Download it from its page there and unzip the file. On Windows or a Mac, double-click each TTF or OTF file and choose Install, then restart any app that was open. The web fonts this page uses are FontKind’s own copy, kept with its licence file .
Is Amazonas in Google Docs?
Probably not: the More fonts list in Docs draws on Google Fonts, and Amazonas comes from Peter Wiegel. Docs can’t add a font of your own, so set it in an app on your computer, such as Word, instead.
How many weights does Amazonas have?
Amazonas comes in one weight, Regular (400). Ask for bold and most apps thicken the letters themselves: a faux bold, not a drawn one.
Who designed Amazonas?
Amazonas was designed by Peter Wiegel. Peter Wiegel also made 18th Century, 5by7, 5by7light and 81 more on FontKind.
What fonts are similar to Amazonas?
The closest in our letter-by-letter match are Fredoka (85), Espresso Dolce (82) and Manjari (80), out of 100. Next to Amazonas, Fredoka is 24% heavier, with an x-height 11% shorter. See all 100 fonts like Amazonas.