Bleed Script

With an x-height of 56.3% of the cap height, its lowercase stands above the 48.4% median for script fonts, taller than 49 of the 53 other script fonts. Ascenders on b, d, h, k and l line up with the capitals (99.4% of their height), and descenders on g, j, p, q and y drop 28.8% of the cap height below the baseline, shallower than 51 of the 53 other script fonts. It sets narrow: an average lowercase letter, spacing included, is 55.5% as wide as the capitals are tall (an average capital, 92.2%), 13.4% less than the median for script fonts, so more words fit on a line. The o is wider than it is tall, 1.15 to 1, and M is the widest capital, at 1.30 times the width of H. O stands exactly as tall as H and sits on the baseline, with no overshoot.

Ink covers 34.4% of each lowercase letter's box (its advance width by the cap height), darker than 40 of the 53 other script fonts. Paint drips hang from the undersides of the strokes.

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 30.2% of the cap height, and lowercase letters reach 27% past their own widths into the space of their neighbours. Spacing is adjusted with 46 kerning pairs, more than 30 of the 53 other script fonts. The tightest of them is TA, which closes up by 24.1% of the cap height. The figures have different widths, so columns of numbers set in Bleed Script will not line up exactly.

Bleed Script is drawn on the same letter structure as 16 other fonts in the library. Compared with Bleed Script, Scribe Broadpen keeps the letters plain, without the drip effect, sets 15% wider and has a 49% x-height. Copperline Script keeps the letters plain, without the drip effect, sets 27% wider and puts down 28% less ink. Anchor Script keeps the letters plain, without the drip effect, sets 15% wider and has a 48% x-height.