Here are some short pangrams using standard written English, not involving abbreviations or proper nouns:
- ** "Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs."** (32 letters - used on NASA’s Space Shuttle)
- ** "Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz."** (31 letters - used by Windows XP for some fonts)
- ** "The five boxing wizards jump quickly."** (31 letters)
- ** "How vexingly quick daft zebras jump!"** (30 letters)
- ** "Bright vixens jump; dozy fowl quack."** (29 letters)
- ** "Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow."** (29 letters - used by Adobe InDesign to display font samples)