Birthday Candle Caps

Its lowercase sits low: the x-height is 67.9% of the cap height, where the median for display fonts is 74.8%, lower than 98 of the 111 other display fonts. Ascenders on b, d, h, k and l stop at 96% of the capital height, and descenders on g, j, p, q and y drop 24.4% of the cap height below the baseline, deeper than 62 of the 111 other display fonts. Birthday Candle Caps runs 13% narrower than the median for display fonts: an average lowercase letter, spacing included, is 76.1% as wide as the capitals are tall (an average capital, 84.1%). The o is close to a circle, 1.00 times as wide as it is tall, and N is the widest capital, at 1.13 times the width of H. The O stops 4.7% of the cap height short of H and dips 1.1% below the baseline.

The letters stand upright, with no measurable slant. Vertical stems measure 21.2% of the cap height, lighter than 32 of the 55 other display fonts. Ink covers 45.8% of each lowercase letter's box (its advance width by the cap height), darker than 72 of the 111 other display fonts. The contrast is mild: the sides of o and O are 1.36 times as thick as their tops and bottoms.

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 45.9% of the cap height, and the blank space either side of a lowercase letter takes up 13.1% of its width. The font carries no kerning, so spacing comes from each letter’s own side bearings. The figures have different widths, so columns of numbers set in Birthday Candle Caps will not line up exactly.