Brush Ink Taper

With an x-height of 80.2% of the cap height, its lowercase stands above the 73.3% median for handwriting fonts, the tallest of all 22 handwriting fonts. Ascenders on b, d, h, k and l rise 24% above the capitals, and descenders on g, j, p, q and y drop 14.2% of the cap height below the baseline, shallower than 20 of the 21 other handwriting fonts. It sets narrow: an average lowercase letter, spacing included, is 64.1% as wide as the capitals are tall (an average capital, 67.8%), 14.3% less than the median for handwriting fonts, so more words fit on a line. The o is an upright oval, 0.75 times as wide as it is tall, and B is the widest capital, at 1.01 times the width of H. The O stops 5.6% of the cap height short of H and stands 2.6% above the baseline.

The letters lean about 7° to the right, where most handwriting fonts in the library stand upright. Ink covers 31.2% of each lowercase letter's box (its advance width by the cap height), lighter than 16 of the 21 other handwriting fonts. The contrast is reversed: the tops and bottoms of o and O are 1.4 times as thick as their sides.

Its 95 characters include 52 Latin letters, plus 43 figures, punctuation marks and symbols; there are no accented Latin letters beyond A to Z. The word space measures 56.1% of the cap height, and the blank space either side of a lowercase letter takes up 15.2% 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 Brush Ink Taper will not line up exactly.