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Life Savers

Life Savers is a display font in 3 weights. Its lowercase letters are 9% narrower than the typical display font. Last updated 8 September 2025.

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Life Savers Regular
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Editing a PDF that uses Life Savers

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

Measured metrics

Average lowercase letter width477 units per 1000 em
Average capital letter width671.9 units per 1000 em
Word space226 units per 1000 em
Digitsproportional (digit widths differ)
Spacingproportional
Width of i compared with m34%
Printable ASCII characters covered94 of 94
CategoryDisplay

Weights and styles

Languages beyond basic Latin

Open fonts closest to Life Savers

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. Rakkas Regularloosely similar widths (41.8 units)
  2. Zilla Slab Highlight Regularloosely similar widths (48.9 units)
  3. Zilla Slab Regularloosely similar widths (49.3 units)
  4. Neuton Regularloosely similar widths (49.4 units)
  5. Kreon Regularloosely similar widths (49.5 units)
  6. Risque Regularloosely similar widths (51 units)
  7. Quattrocento Regularloosely similar widths (51.1 units)
  8. Orelega One Regularloosely similar widths (51.2 units)

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Questions people ask

+Can I edit a PDF that uses Life Savers?

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

+Is Life Savers free to use?

Life Savers 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 Life Savers?

By measured letter widths, Rakkas is the closest match among open fonts (a mean difference of 41.8 units per 1000 em). Text set in one takes almost the same space in the other.

+Which languages does Life Savers support?

It includes these character sets: Latin, Central European.

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