Sans serif · Peter Wiegel
Centre Claws
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CSSfont-family: 'Centre Claws', sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.1;
Centre Claws is a free sans serif by Peter Wiegel, from the designer’s own site. Among the 697 sans serifs on FontKind, Centre Claws has an x-height shorter than 94%, is narrower than 66% and, at its regular weight, is darker than 71%.
01 / Light table
Laid on top of Lment
Centre Claws on one light table with its two closest fonts, Lment (100 out of 100) and DiffiKult (88). Lment is 46% wider and 24% lighter, with an x-height 35% taller; DiffiKult is 37% lighter and 10% wider.
Centre Claws and Lment laid on top of each other.
Ink shared with Centre ClawsLment…
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 Centre Claws 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
Centre Claws 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 Centre Claws, 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 “Centre Claws”: the licence reserves the name.
- Sharing the files
- Yes, but not for sale. With the licence.
Centre Claws 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 Centre Claws 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 Centre Claws, or upload it with Canva Pro. Canva’s help
- Cricut
- Once installed. Design Space lists Centre Claws under System. Fonts for Cricut →
From each app’s own font list or help pages.
05 / Measurements
Centre Claws, measured
Taken from the font file's own outlines, regular style
- x-height
- 43.8% of the emlowercase x
- Cap height
- 59.6% of the emcapitals
- x / cap
- 0.73lowercase against capitals
- Width
- 48.0% of the emaverage lowercase
- Ink
- 46%letter box filled
Where it stands among sans serifs
Ranked against all 697 sans serifs on FontKind
x-heightSmaller than 94% of sans serifs
WidthNarrower than 66% of sans serifs
InkDarker than 71% of sans serifs
06 / Similar fonts
Fonts similar to Centre Claws
Matched letter by letter · its own family apart
- Lment10046% wider · x-height 35% taller · 24% lighter
- DiffiKult8837% lighter · 10% wider
- Baltic67x-height 49% taller · 62% lighter · 30% wider
- Googee64x-height 19% shorter · 16% narrower · 7% heavier
- Isar CAT6311% heavier
- Stick No Bills62x-height 23% taller · 14% narrower · 8% lighter
All 100 fonts similar to Centre Claws →Compare side by side →Get Centre Claws on Peter Wiegel
07 / Swap
Swap Centre Claws without a jump
Running text within 3% of the width, x-height within 5%
Fallback while it loads
Until Centre Claws loads, this sets Arial in its place at 103.5% of its size, so running text keeps Centre Claws’s width and lines keep their height: nothing moves when it arrives.
@font-face {
font-family: 'Centre Claws Fallback';
src: local('Arial');
size-adjust: 103.54%;
ascent-override: 65.50%;
descent-override: 15.66%;
line-gap-override: 3.86%;
}
font-family: 'Centre Claws', 'Centre Claws Fallback', sans-serif;08 / Questions
Questions about Centre Claws
Answered from its licence, Peter Wiegel and each app’s own font list
Is Centre Claws free for commercial use?
Yes. Centre Claws 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 “Centre Claws”.
How do I download and install Centre Claws?
Centre Claws 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 Centre Claws in Google Docs?
Probably not: the More fonts list in Docs draws on Google Fonts, and Centre Claws 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 Centre Claws have?
Centre Claws 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 Centre Claws?
Centre Claws was designed by Peter Wiegel. Peter Wiegel also made 18th Century, 5by7, 5by7light and 81 more on FontKind.
What fonts are similar to Centre Claws?
The closest in our letter-by-letter match are Lment (100), DiffiKult (88) and Baltic (67), out of 100. Next to Centre Claws, Lment is 46% wider and 24% lighter, with an x-height 35% taller. See all 100 fonts like Centre Claws.