Buttress Bowl Sans Outline

Its x-height is 70.6% of the cap height, near the 72.1% typical of sans serif fonts in the library, lower than 52 of the 75 other sans serif fonts. Ascenders on b, d, h, k and l line up with the capitals (102.1% of their height), and descenders on g, j, p, q and y drop 28.7% of the cap height below the baseline, deeper than 43 of the 75 other sans serif fonts. It sets wide: an average lowercase letter, spacing included, is 79% as wide as the capitals are tall (an average capital, 90.7%), 5.1% more than the median for sans serif fonts, so the same words take a longer line. The o is close to a circle, 1.03 times as wide as it is tall, and W is the widest capital, at 1.29 times the width of H. The O stops 1.4% of the cap height short of H and dips 3.7% below the baseline.

Ink covers 23.9% of each lowercase letter's box (its advance width by the cap height), lighter than 51 of the 75 other sans serif fonts. The letters are hollow: every stroke is drawn as a thin outline band.

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 43.6% of the cap height, and the blank space either side of a lowercase letter takes up 12.6% 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 Buttress Bowl Sans Outline will not line up exactly.

Buttress Bowl Sans Outline is Buttress Bowl Sans with the outline effect applied to every letter. Buttress Bowl Sans Outline is drawn on the same letter structure as one other font in the library.