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Short Phrases for Type Specimens and Testing
Short Phrases for Type Specimens and Testing

Short Phrases for Type Specimens and Testing

The following strings use letters that contain most of a typeface’s DNA: aegilos, at least one capital (preferring GRSQ), and at least one diagonal stroke.

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About this list

When I began working on The Anatomy of Type, it became clear I’d need a bank of pithy words that could be used to illustrate the distinctive characteristics of each featured typeface. With the help of tools like Nina Stössinger’s word-o-mat, combined with my wife Laura Serra’s multilingual knowledge, we built an earlier version of this list. The criteria has since expanded a bit and I added a few extra phrases.

These short strings might be useful to type makers for creating specimens, or to type users for testing fonts, when pangrams or other texts occupy too much space. — Stephen

  • Allez goûtez-la, Ray dis
  • Bezirksgeschäft
  • Blue Ridge Mountains
  • Breakfasting Goshawk
  • Egozentrika
  • Gangster Rock
  • Glycerol Rags
  • Groundwater Jigs
  • Kindergartenkloßzeit
  • Koortsachtige
  • Megabytes Fog
  • Metaalbewerking
  • Qualifying Clerks
  • Qualifying Roes
  • Questography
  • Readjusting Grovel
  • Reclassifying Goy
  • Redacting Buoys
  • Rekordflug Gas
  • Repacking Softly
  • Ringstraße Motel
  • Romantische Gasklänge
  • Rulemaking Axons
  • Salinger Youths
  • Spacewalking Quest
  • Stenographer Kiss
  • This Gargoyle Ram
  • Transmogrifier Gunnery
  • Typografiekonferenzerholungszustandsgefühle
  • Wisecracking Rolf

Bonus

  • Q: Did you know I nabbed this jazzy pangram from [expletive] S. Coles?
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Other Tools
Just Another Foundry - Just Another Test Text Generator

Just Another Foundry GmbH Auweg 10g 85748 Garching Germany

justanotherfoundry.com

Wordlist Maker 180506

mbtype.com

https://www.setuptype.com/x/typable/

www.setuptype.com

Pangram.me

"hey guys so i just watched the fbi outside my window dance the macarena while playing the xylophone and questioning the very zany koala" - 112 letters - gumi's left goggle - 10/11/22 "l;sadfjk sdaf sfu bio v kxmcvbc v,mzxcvb ';paehifrvb nwa0e9ryhtp[qpofugbn" - 60 letters - erik - 10/11/22 "A nice man would like to battle just because he hates xylophones which is funny that he hates them so much and his name is zqvrg " - 103 letters - omen - 10/11/22 "thanks SRM I agree Australia day is racist it represents when the british invaded Australia.

pangram.me

Pangrammer

pangrammer.byu.edu

https://www.quinapalus.com/cgi-bin/match?pat=*&misp=0&minl=1&maxl=31&sps=abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz&sbs=smugoat&outp=0&dict=0&ent=Search

www.quinapalus.com