Sans serif · GGBotNet
Home Video
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CSSfont-family: 'Home Video', sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.1;
Home Video is a free sans serif by GGBotNet, from its maker’s repository on GitHub. Among the 697 sans serifs on FontKind, Home Video has an x-height taller than 96%, is wider than 90% and, at its regular weight, is lighter than 68%. Its thickest strokes are 1.0 times its thinnest: nearly even strokes.
01 / Light table
Laid on top of TDAText
Home Video on one light table with its two closest fonts, TDAText (92 out of 100) and Terminalia (84). TDAText is 10% heavier, with an x-height 29% shorter; Terminalia is 17% narrower and 8% lighter, with an x-height 38% shorter.
Home Video and TDAText laid on top of each other.
Ink shared with Home VideoTDAText…
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 Home Video 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.
- a
- b
- c
- d
- e
- f
- g
- h
- i
- j
- k
- l
- m
- n
- o
- p
- q
- r
- s
- t
- u
- v
- w
- x
- y
- z
- &
- ?
- !
- @
- %
- (
- )
03 / Weights
Home Video in 2 weights
2 weights, 400–700
- 400 Regular
- 700 Bold
04 / Facts
Who made Home Video, and can you use it?
- Designer
- GGBotNet
- Kind
- Sans serif
- Styles
- 2 weights, 400–700
- From
- GitHub
- Character sets
- latin, latin-ext
- Licence
- CC0 1.0, public domain
Can I use it?
- Commercial use
- Yes.
- Logos
- Yes.
- Websites and apps
- Yes. Self-hosted.
- PDFs and documents
- Yes.
- Changes
- Yes. No conditions: it is in the public domain.
- Sharing the files
- Yes. No conditions, not even a credit.
Home Video is under the CC0 1.0, public domain. 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 Home Video 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 Home Video, or upload it with Canva Pro. Canva’s help
- Cricut
- Once installed. Design Space lists Home Video under System. Fonts for Cricut →
From each app’s own font list or help pages.
05 / Measurements
Home Video, measured
Taken from the font file's own outlines, regular style
- x-height
- 70.0% of the emlowercase x
- Cap height
- 70.0% of the emcapitals
- x / cap
- 1.00lowercase against capitals
- Width
- 60.0% of the emaverage lowercase
- Ink
- 39%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 96% of sans serifs
WidthWider than 90% of sans serifs
InkLighter than 68% of sans serifs
ContrastMore even than 89% of sans serifs
06 / Similar fonts
Fonts similar to Home Video
Matched letter by letter · its own family apart
- TDAText92x-height 29% shorter · 10% heavier
- Terminalia84x-height 38% shorter · 17% narrower · 8% lighter
- Jgs79x-height 44% shorter · 66% lighter · 17% narrower
- Undefined Medium77x-height 29% shorter · 9% heavier
- DotGothic1677x-height 23% shorter · 17% narrower · 6% lighter
- Departure Mono76x-height 22% shorter · 6% wider · 8% lighter
All 100 fonts similar to Home Video →Compare side by side →Get Home Video on GitHub
07 / Swap
Swap Home Video without a jump
Running text within 3% of the width, x-height within 5%
None of the fonts that look most like Home Video sets text to its width and x-height: a swap would move lines.
Fallback while it loads
Until Home Video loads, this sets Arial in its place at 134.3% of its size, so running text keeps Home Video’s width and lines keep their height: nothing moves when it arrives.
@font-face {
font-family: 'Home Video Fallback';
src: local('Arial');
size-adjust: 134.32%;
ascent-override: 59.56%;
descent-override: 7.45%;
line-gap-override: 0.00%;
}
font-family: 'Home Video', 'Home Video Fallback', sans-serif;08 / Questions
Questions about Home Video
Answered from its licence, GitHub and each app’s own font list
Is Home Video free for commercial use?
Yes, with no conditions at all: Home Video is in the public domain, under CC0 1.0 . Use it, change it and pass it on, commercially too, without even a credit.
How do I download and install Home Video?
Home Video comes free from its maker’s repository on GitHub . On its repository there, choose Code, then Download ZIP, and unzip the file: the fonts are in its Home Video/TrueType (.ttf) folder. 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 Home Video in Google Docs?
Probably not: the More fonts list in Docs draws on Google Fonts, and Home Video 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 Home Video have?
Home Video comes in two weights: Regular (400) and Bold (700).
Who designed Home Video?
Home Video was designed by GGBotNet. GGBotNet also made Alpha Prota, Blaec, Crayon Libre and 16 more on FontKind.
What fonts are similar to Home Video?
The closest in our letter-by-letter match are TDAText (92), Terminalia (84) and Jgs (79), out of 100. Next to Home Video, TDAText is 10% heavier, with an x-height 29% shorter. See all 100 fonts like Home Video.