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Big Shoulders Display

Big Shoulders Display is a display font in 9 weights, also available as a variable font. Its lowercase letters are 38% narrower than the typical display font. Last updated 4 September 2024.

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Big Shoulders Display Regular
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Editing a PDF that uses Big Shoulders Display

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 Big Shoulders Display from the widths stored in your PDF, loads the complete open font, and sets your new text in Big Shoulders Display itself. The rest of the page is carried over untouched.

Measured metrics

Average lowercase letter width326.8 units per 1000 em
Average capital letter width345.3 units per 1000 em
Word space207 units per 1000 em
Digitsproportional (digit widths differ)
Spacingproportional
Width of i compared with m31%
Printable ASCII characters covered94 of 94
CategoryDisplay

Weights and styles

Languages beyond basic Latin

Open fonts closest to Big Shoulders Display

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.

  1. Big Shoulders Stencil Display Regularnearly identical widths (1.5 units)
  2. Big Shoulders Inline Display Regularvery close widths (8.2 units)
  3. Big Shoulders Text Regularvery close widths (10.7 units)
  4. Big Shoulders Stencil Text Regularvery close widths (11.1 units)
  5. Big Shoulders Regularvery close widths (13.3 units)
  6. Big Shoulders Stencil Regularvery close widths (13.7 units)
  7. Big Shoulders Inline Text Regularsimilar widths (16.5 units)
  8. Big Shoulders Inline Regularsimilar widths (19.1 units)

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Questions people ask

+Can I edit a PDF that uses Big Shoulders Display?

Yes. Drop the PDF into MythosPDF and click the text. New letters are set in Big Shoulders Display itself, loaded from the open font, so the edit matches the rest of the page.

+Is Big Shoulders Display free to use?

Big Shoulders Display 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 Big Shoulders Display?

By measured letter widths, Big Shoulders Stencil Display is the closest match among open fonts (a mean difference of 1.5 units per 1000 em). Text set in one takes almost the same space in the other.

+Which languages does Big Shoulders Display support?

It includes these character sets: Latin, Central European, Vietnamese.

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