Sans serif · Lead Designer Matveij Malkin
Guidy
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CSSfont-family: 'Guidy', sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.1;
Guidy is a free sans serif by Lead Designer Matveij Malkin, Glyph Set Expansion Danilo Borovinić, Technical Review Maxim Keshishev and Anna Kondrashova, from its maker’s repository on GitHub. Among the 697 sans serifs on FontKind, Guidy has an average x-height, is wider than 81% and, at its regular weight, is of average darkness. Its thickest strokes are 1.1 times its thinnest: nearly even strokes.
01 / Light table
Laid on top of Varela
Guidy on one light table with its two closest fonts, Varela (85 out of 100) and Prompt (83). Varela has nearly identical proportions; Prompt is 10% heavier, with an x-height 8% shorter and more stroke contrast.
Guidy and Varela laid on top of each other.
Ink shared with GuidyVarela…
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 Guidy 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
Guidy 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 Guidy, and can you use it?
- Designer
- Lead Designer Matveij Malkin, Glyph Set Expansion Danilo Borovinić, Technical Review Maxim Keshishev, Anna Kondrashova
- Kind
- Sans serif
- Styles
- 1 weight (400)
- From
- GitHub
- 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.
Guidy 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 Guidy comes from its maker’s repository on GitHub. Google’s guide
- Word, PowerPoint
- Not verified. Install it from its maker’s repository on GitHub 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 Guidy, or upload it with Canva Pro. Canva’s help
- Cricut
- Once installed. Design Space lists Guidy under System. Fonts for Cricut →
From each app’s own font list or help pages.
05 / Measurements
Guidy, measured
Taken from the font file's own outlines, regular style
- x-height
- 52.0% of the emlowercase x
- Cap height
- 70.0% of the emcapitals
- x / cap
- 0.74lowercase against capitals
- Width
- 55.3% of the emaverage lowercase
- Ink
- 42%letter box filled
- Contrast
- 1.13 : 1nearly even strokes
Where it stands among sans serifs
Ranked against all 697 sans serifs on FontKind
x-heightNear the middle of sans serifs
WidthWider than 81% of sans serifs
InkNear the middle of sans serifs
ContrastMore even than 62% of sans serifs
06 / Similar fonts
Fonts similar to Guidy
Matched letter by letter · its own family apart
- Varela85Nearly identical proportions
- Prompt83x-height 8% shorter · 10% heavier · more stroke contrast
- Argentum Sans8215% heavier · 4% wider
- DejaVu Sans80x-height 5% taller · 6% lighter
- Garcia78x-height 12% shorter · 10% narrower
- Biryani76x-height 6% taller
All 100 fonts similar to Guidy →Compare side by side →Get Guidy on GitHub
07 / Swap
Swap Guidy without a jump
Running text within 3% of the width, x-height within 5%
- Varela85text 2.7% narrower · x-height 1.9% shorter
- Golos Text73text 1.4% narrower · x-height 1.9% taller
- Geologica72text 1.7% narrower · x-height 4.8% shorter
- Inder72text 2.3% narrower · x-height 3.1% shorter
- Be Vietnam Pro72same text width · x-height 1.9% taller
- Amiko72text 2.0% wider · same x-height
Fallback while it loads
Until Guidy loads, this sets Arial in its place at 110.9% of its size, so running text keeps Guidy’s width and lines keep their height: nothing moves when it arrives.
@font-face {
font-family: 'Guidy Fallback';
src: local('Arial');
size-adjust: 110.90%;
ascent-override: 85.66%;
descent-override: 22.54%;
line-gap-override: 0.00%;
}
font-family: 'Guidy', 'Guidy Fallback', sans-serif;08 / Questions
Questions about Guidy
Answered from its licence, GitHub and each app’s own font list
Is Guidy free for commercial use?
Yes. Guidy 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 Guidy?
Guidy comes free from its maker’s repository on GitHub . On its repository there, choose Code, then Download ZIP, 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 load from its repository, through jsDelivr, as does its licence file .
Is Guidy in Google Docs?
Probably not: the More fonts list in Docs draws on Google Fonts, and Guidy comes from its maker’s repository on GitHub. 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 Guidy have?
Guidy 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 Guidy?
Guidy was designed by Lead Designer Matveij Malkin, Glyph Set Expansion Danilo Borovinić, Technical Review Maxim Keshishev and Anna Kondrashova.
What fonts are similar to Guidy?
The closest in our letter-by-letter match are Varela (85), Prompt (83) and Argentum Sans (82), out of 100. Next to Guidy, Varela has nearly identical proportions. See all 100 fonts like Guidy.