Anchor Script

Anchor Script's lowercase x reaches 47.5% of the capital height, close to the 48.4% median for script fonts, lower than 32 of the 53 other script fonts. Ascenders on b, d, h, k and l line up with the capitals (99.2% of their height), and descenders on g, j, p, q and y drop 50.9% of the cap height below the baseline, deeper than 30 of the 53 other script fonts. Its letters are of average width for script fonts: an average lowercase letter, spacing included, is 64% as wide as the capitals are tall (an average capital, 108.5%), within 0.2% of the median. The o is wider than it is tall, 1.69 to 1, and M is the widest capital, at 1.29 times the width of H. The O tops out level with H and stands 0.4% above the baseline.

Ink covers 31.9% of each lowercase letter's box (its advance width by the cap height), darker than 38 of the 53 other script fonts.

Its 148 characters include 105 Latin letters, plus 43 figures, punctuation marks and symbols; 53 of the Latin letters are accented or special forms beyond A to Z. The word space measures 35.4% of the cap height, and lowercase letters reach 30% past their own widths into the space of their neighbours. Spacing is adjusted with 54 kerning pairs, more than 44 of the 53 other script fonts. The tightest of them is FA, which closes up by 28.3% of the cap height. The figures have different widths, so columns of numbers set in Anchor Script will not line up exactly.

16 other library fonts share Anchor Script's underlying letter structure. Compared with Anchor Script, Darling Brush sets 20% wider. Inkline Signature sets 6% wider and puts down 59% less ink. Noel Copper sets 22% wider and puts down 30% less ink.