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Glide
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CSSfont-family: 'Glide', sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.1;
Glide is a free sans serif, whose repository is no longer online: FontKind keeps its last release. Among the 697 sans serifs on FontKind, Glide has an x-height taller than 75%, is of average width and, at its regular weight, is darker than 78%. Its thickest strokes are 1.2 times its thinnest: nearly even strokes.
01 / Light table
Laid on top of Radio Canada Big
Glide on one light table with its two closest fonts, Radio Canada Big (87 out of 100) and Mluvka (81). Radio Canada Big has nearly identical proportions; Mluvka is 4% wider and 8% lighter.
Glide and Radio Canada Big laid on top of each other.
Ink shared with GlideRadio Canada Big…
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 Glide 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 / Weights
Glide in 10 weights
10 weights, 100–950, with italics
- 100 Thin, with its italic
- 200 Extra light, with its italic
- 300 Light, with its italic
- 400 Regular, with its italic
- 500 Medium, with its italic
- 600 Semibold, with its italic
- 700 Bold, with its italic
- 800 Extra bold, with its italic
- 900 Black, with its italic
- 950, with its italic
04 / Facts
Can you use Glide?
- Designer
- Not listed
- Kind
- Sans serif
- Styles
- 10 weights, 100–950, with italics
- From
- FontKind’s copy of its last release, 4.015
- Character sets
- latin, latin-ext
- 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.
- Sharing the files
- Yes, but not for sale. With the licence.
Glide 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 Glide comes from its author’s repository, now offline. Google’s guide
- Word, PowerPoint
- Not verified. Install it from its author’s repository, now offline 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 Glide, or upload it with Canva Pro. Canva’s help
- Cricut
- Once installed. Design Space lists Glide under System. Fonts for Cricut →
From each app’s own font list or help pages.
05 / Measurements
Glide, measured
Taken from the font file's own outlines, regular style
- x-height
- 53.2% of the emlowercase x
- Cap height
- 70.9% of the emcapitals
- x / cap
- 0.75lowercase against capitals
- Width
- 51.8% of the emaverage lowercase
- Ink
- 48%letter box filled
- Contrast
- 1.19 : 1nearly even strokes
Where it stands among sans serifs
Ranked against all 697 sans serifs on FontKind
x-heightLarger than 75% of sans serifs
WidthNear the middle of sans serifs
InkDarker than 78% of sans serifs
ContrastNear the middle of sans serifs
06 / Similar fonts
Fonts similar to Glide
Matched letter by letter · its own family apart
07 / Swap
Swap Glide without a jump
Running text within 3% of the width, x-height within 5%
- Radio Canada Big87text 1.7% narrower · same x-height
- Scoutie Sans78text 1.3% wider · x-height 3.2% shorter
- Fixel77text 2.6% wider · x-height 2.3% shorter
- Ronzino77text 1.3% narrower · same x-height
- Pliant76same text width · x-height 2.3% shorter
- Switzer75text 1.6% narrower · same x-height
Fallback while it loads
Until Glide loads, this sets Arial in its place at 102.7% of its size, so running text keeps Glide’s width and lines keep their height: nothing moves when it arrives.
@font-face {
font-family: 'Glide Fallback';
src: local('Arial');
size-adjust: 102.71%;
ascent-override: 96.00%;
descent-override: 26.97%;
line-gap-override: 0.00%;
}
font-family: 'Glide', 'Glide Fallback', sans-serif;08 / Questions
Questions about Glide
Answered from its licence, FontKind’s copy of its last release, 4.015 and each app’s own font list
Is Glide free for commercial use?
Yes. Glide is under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 , which allows commercial use at any scale, logos, websites, apps and PDFs included.
How do I download and install Glide?
Glide’s author no longer has its repository online, so there is nowhere to download it from. FontKind serves its last release, 4.015, under the SIL Open Font License, which allows it: the web fonts this page uses are FontKind’s own copy, kept with its licence file .
Is Glide in Google Docs?
Probably not: the More fonts list in Docs draws on Google Fonts, and Glide comes from its author’s repository, now offline. 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 Glide have?
Glide comes in ten weights, from Thin (100) to 950, each with an italic.
What fonts are similar to Glide?
The closest in our letter-by-letter match are Radio Canada Big (87), Mluvka (81) and Rag (80), out of 100. Next to Glide, Radio Canada Big has nearly identical proportions. See all 100 fonts like Glide.