The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is an English-language pangram. This is a sentence that contains all of the letters of the alphabet.
The "quick brown fox" is often used for touch-typing practice, testing typewriters and computer keyboards, and displaying examples of fonts. It can be used when all the letters in the alphabet need to be typed. Because the short sentence makes sense, it is widely known and used.
It is commonly mistaken for "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog", an incorrect pangram, which mistakenly uses "jumped" instead of "jumps", thus excluding the letter "S".
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog Media
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The phrase shown in metal moveable type, used in printing presses (image reversed for readability)
- Boston Journal 1885-02-09 (quick brown fox).png
Item from the February 9, 1885, edition of The Boston Journal mentioning the phrase "A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."
- Fox Jumping Over A Dog in Signaling for Boys.png
Pictorial depiction of the pangram from Scouting for Boys (1908)
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The phrase used to preview a computer typeface