Ancizar Serif
Ancizar Serif is a serif font in 7 weights with italics, also available as a variable font. Its lowercase letters are 9% narrower than the typical serif font. Last updated 16 September 2025.
Editing a PDF that uses Ancizar Serif
Most PDFs embed only the letters they already use. Type a new letter and many editors either refuse or swap in a different font. MythosPDF recognises Ancizar Serif from the widths stored in your PDF, loads the complete open font, and sets your new text in Ancizar Serif itself. The rest of the page is carried over untouched.
Measured metrics
| Average lowercase letter width | 472.5 units per 1000 em |
|---|---|
| Average capital letter width | 607.6 units per 1000 em |
| Word space | 240 units per 1000 em |
| Digits | tabular (every digit is 524 units wide, so columns of numbers line up) |
| Spacing | proportional |
| Width of i compared with m | 34% |
| Printable ASCII characters covered | 94 of 94 |
| Category | Serif |
Weights and styles
- Ancizar Serif Light Italic
- Ancizar Serif Light
- Ancizar Serif Italic
- Ancizar Serif Regular
- Ancizar Serif Medium Italic
- Ancizar Serif Medium
- Ancizar Serif SemiBold Italic
- Ancizar Serif SemiBold
- Ancizar Serif Bold Italic
- Ancizar Serif Bold
- Ancizar Serif ExtraBold Italic
- Ancizar Serif ExtraBold
- Ancizar Serif Black Italic
- Ancizar Serif Black
Languages beyond basic Latin
Open fonts closest to Ancizar Serif
Measured on every printable character both fonts contain. A smaller difference means the same words take the same space, so lines break in the same places.
- Alyamama Regularnearly identical widths (2 units)
- Ancizar Sans Regularsimilar widths (26.4 units)
- Frank Ruhl Libre Regularloosely similar widths (34.5 units)
- Libertinus Serif Regularloosely similar widths (35.2 units)
- Crimson Pro Regularloosely similar widths (35.3 units)
- Sarabun Regularloosely similar widths (35.6 units)
- Sahitya Regularloosely similar widths (36 units)
- Libertinus Math Regularloosely similar widths (36.2 units)
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Questions people ask
+Can I edit a PDF that uses Ancizar Serif?
Yes. Drop the PDF into MythosPDF and click the text. New letters are set in Ancizar Serif itself, loaded from the open font, so the edit matches the rest of the page.
+Is Ancizar Serif free to use?
Ancizar Serif is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, an open licence that allows free use in documents, including commercial ones. Check the licence text for your exact use.
+Which font is closest to Ancizar Serif?
By measured letter widths, Alyamama is the closest match among open fonts (a mean difference of 2 units per 1000 em). Text set in one takes almost the same space in the other.
+Which languages does Ancizar Serif support?
It includes these character sets: Greek, Latin, Central European.
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