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Life Savers
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CSSfont-family: 'Life Savers', sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.1;
Life Savers is a free display font by Impallari Type, on Google Fonts since 2012. Among the 554 display faces on FontKind, Life Savers has an x-height shorter than 92%, is narrower than 64% and, at its regular weight, is lighter than 90%. Its thickest strokes are 1.4 times its thinnest: moderate stroke contrast.
01 / Light table
Laid on top of Nixie One
Life Savers on one light table with its two closest fonts, Nixie One (92 out of 100) and Snowburst One (75). Nixie One is 19% wider and 34% lighter, with an x-height 15% taller; Snowburst One is 26% wider and 28% lighter, with an x-height 61% taller.
Life Savers and Nixie One laid on top of each other.
Ink shared with Life SaversNixie One…
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 Life Savers 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
Life Savers in 3 weights
3 weights, 400–800
- 400 Regular
- 700 Bold
- 800 Extra bold
04 / Facts
Who made Life Savers, and can you use it?
- Designer
- Impallari Type
- Kind
- Display
- Styles
- 3 weights, 400–800
- On Google Fonts since
- 2012
- 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 or loaded from Google Fonts.
- PDFs and documents
- Yes.
- Changes
- Yes.
- Sharing the files
- Yes, but not for sale. With the licence.
Life Savers 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
- Most likely. Under More fonts, in Sheets and Slides too. Google’s guide
- Word, PowerPoint
- No. Install it from Google Fonts first. Microsoft’s list
- Figma
- Yes. Built in, nothing to install. Figma’s help
- Canva
- Not verified. Search its font menu for Life Savers, or upload it with Canva Pro. Canva’s help
- Cricut
- Once installed. Design Space lists Life Savers under System. Fonts for Cricut →
From each app’s own font list or help pages, read on 28 September 2026.
05 / Measurements
Life Savers, measured
Taken from the font file's own outlines, regular style
- x-height
- 43.6% of the emlowercase x
- Cap height
- 82.1% of the emcapitals
- x / cap
- 0.53lowercase against capitals
- Width
- 47.7% of the emaverage lowercase
- Ink
- 28%letter box filled
- Contrast
- 1.44 : 1moderate stroke contrast
Where it stands among display faces
Ranked against all 554 display faces on FontKind
x-heightSmaller than 92% of display faces
WidthNarrower than 64% of display faces
InkLighter than 90% of display faces
ContrastMore contrast than 63% of display faces
06 / Similar fonts
Fonts similar to Life Savers
Matched letter by letter · its own family apart
- Nixie One9219% wider · 34% lighter · x-height 15% taller
- Snowburst One75x-height 61% taller · 26% wider · 28% lighter
- Chubbo7447% heavier · x-height 11% taller · 10% wider
- Victorianna6854% lighter · x-height 12% taller · less stroke contrast
- Gowun Batang61x-height 24% taller · less stroke contrast
- Corben5956% heavier · 14% wider · x-height 7% taller
All 100 fonts similar to Life Savers →Compare side by side →Get Life Savers on Google Fonts
07 / Swap
Swap Life Savers without a jump
Running text within 3% of the width, x-height within 5%
- Sorts Mill Goudy30text 1.7% wider · x-height 2.5% shorter
- Mate30text 1.3% wider · x-height 4.6% taller
- Zen Old Mincho21text 2.4% wider · x-height 1.4% shorter
Fallback while it loads
Until Life Savers loads, this sets Arial in its place at 94.9% of its size, so running text keeps Life Savers’s width and lines keep their height: nothing moves when it arrives.
@font-face {
font-family: 'Life Savers Fallback';
src: local('Arial');
size-adjust: 94.90%;
ascent-override: 102.43%;
descent-override: 26.34%;
line-gap-override: 0.00%;
}
font-family: 'Life Savers', 'Life Savers Fallback', sans-serif;08 / Questions
Questions about Life Savers
Answered from its licence, Google Fonts and each app’s own font list
Is Life Savers free for commercial use?
Yes. Life Savers 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 Life Savers?
FontKind doesn’t host Life Savers’s files: it comes free from Google Fonts . On its page there, choose Get font, then Download all, and unzip the file. It holds three font files, one per style. On Windows or a Mac, double-click each font file and choose Install, then restart any app that was open, Word included.
Is Life Savers in Microsoft Word?
Not until you install it: Life Savers isn’t one of Microsoft 365’s cloud fonts. Installed, it is in Word’s font menu and PowerPoint’s. On Windows, its weights beyond Regular and Bold show as fonts of their own, such as Life Savers ExtraBold. For someone who hasn’t installed it, turn on Embed fonts in the file in Word’s save options: its licence allows that.
Is Life Savers in Google Docs?
Most likely. Search for Life Savers under More fonts in the font menu of Docs; added there, it is in Sheets and Slides too.
Is Life Savers in Figma?
Yes: Life Savers is in Figma’s font menu with all three weights, in the browser and the desktop app, with nothing to install.
How many weights does Life Savers have?
Life Savers comes in three weights: Regular (400), Bold (700) and ExtraBold (800).
Who designed Life Savers?
Life Savers was designed by Impallari Type. It has been on Google Fonts since August 2012. Impallari Type also made Libre Baskerville, Dancing Script, Libre Franklin and 29 more on FontKind.
What fonts are similar to Life Savers?
The closest in our letter-by-letter match are Nixie One (92), Snowburst One (75) and Chubbo (74), out of 100. Next to Life Savers, Nixie One is 19% wider and 34% lighter, with an x-height 15% taller. See all 100 fonts like Life Savers.