Editorial
Hand-picked
A quiet revolution in reading
Every letterform carries an argument about how a sentence should feel.
Fonts that get along
A whole library of Google Fonts — sorted, searchable, and set in your own words. Then a shuffle button that keeps handing you title-and-body pairs until one feels right.
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Instrument Serif
Serif
002 / The pairing engine
Contrast, not chaos.
A random pair of fonts is usually a bad pair of fonts. Layz scores every candidate on category contrast, sub-genre, superfamily membership and body legibility — then hands you the ones that survive.
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Five families of voice.
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Built for browsing,
Built for browsing,
not waiting.
01 / Loading
Fonts load as you reach them
Nothing downloads until it is about to be seen. Requests are batched eighteen families at a time, so scrolling the whole library costs a handful of requests instead of hundreds.
02 / Preview
Your words, every typeface
Type once and the entire library re-sets itself in your text — a name, a headline, a price. Adjust the size to check how each face holds up small.
03 / Output
Copy the code, not the name
Every font and every pairing hands you a ready-made embed link plus the CSS custom properties. Save the ones you like; they persist between visits.
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Questions,
Questions,
answered.
What is Layz?
Layz is a free type specimen tool. It lists every Latin-script family in the Google Fonts library, lets you preview them all in your own text at any size and weight, and generates title-and-body font pairings on demand. There is no account, no paywall and no advertising.
How many fonts are on Layz?
1,603 families — every Google Fonts family that supports the Latin alphabet, sorted by popularity. That includes 548 sans-serifs, 445 display faces, 305 serifs, 254 handwriting fonts and 51 monospace families.
Are Google Fonts free for commercial use?
Yes. Nearly every family in the Google Fonts library is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, with a few under the Apache License 2.0. Both permit commercial use, embedding and modification. Layz does not license the fonts to you — check each family's licence on its Google Fonts page before shipping it.
What makes a good font pairing?
Contrast with a clear hierarchy. One face announces, the other explains. The reliable moves are pairing a serif headline with a sans body, using two members of the same superfamily, or setting an expressive display face over a neutral workhorse. Two faces competing for attention is the usual failure.
Why do some fonts ignore the weight setting?
Many display and handwriting families ship a single weight. The Google Fonts API silently serves the regular cut when you ask for one a family does not have, so Layz reads each family's real weight list and renders the nearest available cut, telling you when it had to fall back.
Does Layz use cookies or track visitors?
No. Layz sets no cookies, runs no analytics and has no advertising. A handful of preferences — your theme, shortlist, view and preview size — are stored in your own browser and never leave your device. The only third party involved is Google Fonts, which receives your IP address when typefaces load, and you are asked before that happens.
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Keep Layz
Keep Layz
caffeinated.
Support
Layz is free, has no ads, no tracking and no account wall — and it stays that way. If it saved you an afternoon of scrolling through type specimens, a coffee goes a long way toward the next batch of fonts and features.
- 01More typefaces in the library
- 02More hand-picked pairings
- 03Kept free, for everyone