Bandit Slab

Its lowercase is tall: the x-height is 77.1% of the cap height, against a median of 69.6% for serif fonts, taller than 34 of the 39 other serif fonts. Ascenders on b, d, h, k and l rise 3.4% above the capitals, and descenders on g, j, p, q and y drop 24% of the cap height below the baseline, shallower than 34 of the 39 other serif fonts. Its letters are of average width for serif fonts: an average lowercase letter, spacing included, is 83.2% as wide as the capitals are tall (an average capital, 95.1%), within 3.1% of the median. The o is close to a circle, 0.98 times as wide as it is tall, and W is the widest capital, at 1.42 times the width of H. Round letters overshoot: O rises 1.1% of the cap height above H and dips 1.2% below the baseline.

The letters stand upright, with no measurable slant. Vertical stems measure 6.3% of the cap height, lighter than 34 of the 35 other serif fonts. Ink covers 40.6% of each lowercase letter's box (its advance width by the cap height), darker than 30 of the 39 other serif fonts. The contrast is reversed: the tops and bottoms of o and O are 3.0 times as thick as their sides.

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 33.7% of the cap height, and the blank space either side of a lowercase letter takes up 8.1% of its width. Spacing is adjusted with 272 kerning pairs, more than 30 of the 39 other serif fonts. The tightest of them is VA, which closes up by 29.3% of the cap height. The figures have different widths, so columns of numbers set in Bandit Slab will not line up exactly.

8 other library fonts share Bandit Slab's underlying letter structure. Compared with Bandit Slab, Telex Mono puts down 35% less ink. Depot Slab Outline draws the letters as hollow outlines, sets 33% wider and puts down 55% less ink. Canyon 3D adds a 3D extrusion.