Oxanium
Oxanium is a display font in 7 weights, also available as a variable font. Its lowercase letters are about as wide as the typical display font. Last updated 10 September 2025.
Editing a PDF that uses Oxanium
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 Oxanium from the widths stored in your PDF, loads the complete open font, and sets your new text in Oxanium itself. The rest of the page is carried over untouched.
Measured metrics
| Average lowercase letter width | 520.6 units per 1000 em |
|---|---|
| Average capital letter width | 637.3 units per 1000 em |
| Word space | 240 units per 1000 em |
| Digits | tabular (every digit is 578 units wide, so columns of numbers line up) |
| Spacing | proportional |
| Width of i compared with m | 27% |
| Printable ASCII characters covered | 94 of 94 |
| Category | Display |
Weights and styles
Languages beyond basic Latin
Open fonts closest to Oxanium
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.
- Ubuntu Regularsimilar widths (22.7 units)
- Ubuntu Sans Regularsimilar widths (22.7 units)
- IBM Plex Sans Hebrew Regularsimilar widths (24.3 units)
- IBM Plex Sans Devanagari Regularsimilar widths (24.3 units)
- IBM Plex Sans KR Regularsimilar widths (24.3 units)
- IBM Plex Sans Arabic Regularsimilar widths (24.3 units)
- IBM Plex Sans Thai Looped Regularsimilar widths (24.3 units)
- IBM Plex Sans Regularsimilar widths (24.3 units)
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Questions people ask
+Can I edit a PDF that uses Oxanium?
Yes. Drop the PDF into MythosPDF and click the text. New letters are set in Oxanium itself, loaded from the open font, so the edit matches the rest of the page.
+Is Oxanium free to use?
Oxanium 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 Oxanium?
By measured letter widths, Ubuntu is the closest match among open fonts (a mean difference of 22.7 units per 1000 em). Text set in one takes almost the same space in the other.
+Which languages does Oxanium support?
It includes these character sets: Latin, Central European.
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