Sans serif · Ariel Martín Pérez
Piscolabis
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CSSfont-family: 'Piscolabis', sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.1;
Piscolabis is a free sans serif by Ariel Martín Pérez, from Tunera Type Foundry. Among the 697 sans serifs on FontKind, Piscolabis has an average x-height, is narrower than 96% and, at its regular weight, is darker than 94%. Its thickest strokes are 1.3 times its thinnest: nearly even strokes.
Compare with Special Gothic Condensed One →Compare with another font
01 / Light table
Laid on top of Special Gothic Condensed One
Piscolabis on one light table with its two closest fonts, Special Gothic Condensed One (87 out of 100) and Bebas Neue (82). Special Gothic Condensed One is 13% wider; Bebas Neue is 17% wider and 14% lighter, with an x-height 40% taller.
Piscolabis and Special Gothic Condensed One laid on top of each other.
Ink shared with PiscolabisSpecial Gothic Condensed 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 Piscolabis 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
Piscolabis 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 Piscolabis, and can you use it?
- Designer
- Ariel Martín Pérez
- Kind
- Sans serif
- Styles
- 1 weight (400)
- From
- Tunera Type Foundry
- 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, under another name. Not as “Piscolabis”: the licence reserves the name.
- Sharing the files
- Yes, but not for sale. With the licence.
Piscolabis 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 Piscolabis comes from Tunera Type Foundry. Google’s guide
- Word, PowerPoint
- Not verified. Install it from Tunera Type Foundry 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 Piscolabis, or upload it with Canva Pro. Canva’s help
- Cricut
- Once installed. Design Space lists Piscolabis under System. Fonts for Cricut →
From each app’s own font list or help pages.
05 / Measurements
Piscolabis, measured
Taken from the font file's own outlines, regular style
- x-height
- 50.0% of the emlowercase x
- Cap height
- 70.0% of the emcapitals
- x / cap
- 0.71lowercase against capitals
- Width
- 33.3% of the emaverage lowercase
- Ink
- 63%letter box filled
- Contrast
- 1.29 : 1nearly even strokes
Where it stands among sans serifs
Ranked against all 697 sans serifs on FontKind
x-heightNear the middle of sans serifs
WidthNarrower than 96% of sans serifs
InkDarker than 94% of sans serifs
ContrastMore contrast than 76% of sans serifs
06 / Similar fonts
Fonts similar to Piscolabis
Matched letter by letter · its own family apart
- Special Gothic Condensed One8713% wider
- Bebas Neue82x-height 40% taller · 17% wider · 14% lighter
- Pathway Gothic One7426% lighter · x-height 8% taller · 5% wider
- League Gothic7212% narrower · x-height 9% taller · 9% heavier
- BBH Bogle71x-height 40% taller · 30% wider
- Voltaire6821% wider · 23% lighter · less stroke contrast
All 100 fonts similar to Piscolabis →Compare side by side →Get Piscolabis on Tunera Type Foundry
07 / Swap
Swap Piscolabis without a jump
Running text within 3% of the width, x-height within 5%
- Teko46same text width · x-height 2.4% shorter
- BenchNine45text 3.0% narrower · x-height 1.8% shorter
- Mouse Memoirs42same text width · x-height 2.0% taller
- Alumni Sans SC42text 2.6% wider · x-height 1.0% shorter
Fallback while it loads
Until Piscolabis loads, this sets Arial in its place at 66.2% of its size, so running text keeps Piscolabis’s width and lines keep their height: nothing moves when it arrives.
@font-face {
font-family: 'Piscolabis Fallback';
src: local('Arial');
size-adjust: 66.17%;
ascent-override: 151.12%;
descent-override: 30.22%;
line-gap-override: 30.22%;
}
font-family: 'Piscolabis', 'Piscolabis Fallback', sans-serif;08 / Questions
Questions about Piscolabis
Answered from its licence, Tunera Type Foundry and each app’s own font list
Is Piscolabis free for commercial use?
Yes. Piscolabis 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 “Piscolabis”.
How do I download and install Piscolabis?
Piscolabis comes free from Tunera Type Foundry . 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 Piscolabis in Google Docs?
Probably not: the More fonts list in Docs draws on Google Fonts, and Piscolabis comes from Tunera Type Foundry. 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 Piscolabis have?
Piscolabis 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 Piscolabis?
Piscolabis was designed by Ariel Martín Pérez. Ariel Martín Pérez also made Azabache, Brassia, Canarina and twelve more on FontKind.
What fonts are similar to Piscolabis?
The closest in our letter-by-letter match are Special Gothic Condensed One (87), Bebas Neue (82) and Pathway Gothic One (74), out of 100. Next to Piscolabis, Special Gothic Condensed One is 13% wider. See all 100 fonts like Piscolabis.