Fanwood Text
Fanwood Text is a serif font in 1 weight with italics. Its lowercase letters are 15% narrower than the typical serif font. Last updated 10 September 2025.
Editing a PDF that uses Fanwood Text
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 Fanwood Text from the widths stored in your PDF, loads the complete open font, and sets your new text in Fanwood Text itself. The rest of the page is carried over untouched.
Measured metrics
| Average lowercase letter width | 438 units per 1000 em |
|---|---|
| Average capital letter width | 667.1 units per 1000 em |
| Word space | 199.9 units per 1000 em |
| Digits | tabular (every digit is 500 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
Languages beyond basic Latin
Open fonts closest to Fanwood Text
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.
- EB Garamond Regularloosely similar widths (32.9 units)
- Bacasime Antique Regularloosely similar widths (34.1 units)
- Crimson Text Regularloosely similar widths (34.1 units)
- Shafarik Regularloosely similar widths (37.5 units)
- Cormorant Infant Regularloosely similar widths (39 units)
- Amiri Regularloosely similar widths (40 units)
- Amiri Quran Regularloosely similar widths (40 units)
- Libertinus Serif Display Regularloosely similar widths (40.1 units)
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Questions people ask
+Can I edit a PDF that uses Fanwood Text?
Yes. Drop the PDF into MythosPDF and click the text. New letters are set in Fanwood Text itself, loaded from the open font, so the edit matches the rest of the page.
+Is Fanwood Text free to use?
Fanwood Text 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 Fanwood Text?
By measured letter widths, EB Garamond is the closest match among open fonts (a mean difference of 32.9 units per 1000 em). Text set in one takes almost the same space in the other.
+Which languages does Fanwood Text support?
It includes these character sets: Latin, Central European.
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