Campus Varsity

With an x-height of 81.7% of the cap height, its lowercase stands above the 76.2% median for display fonts, taller than 91 of the 97 other display fonts. Ascenders on b, d, h, k and l rise 3.1% above the capitals, and descenders on g, j, p, q and y drop 21.9% of the cap height below the baseline, shallower than 70 of the 97 other display fonts. It sets wide: an average lowercase letter, spacing included, is 99% as wide as the capitals are tall (an average capital, 108.9%), 10.7% more than the median for display fonts, so the same words take a longer line. The o is close to a circle, 1.11 times as wide as it is tall, and W is the widest capital, at 1.28 times the width of H. Round letters overshoot: O rises 1% of the cap height above H and dips 1% below the baseline.

Ink covers 46.6% of each lowercase letter's box (its advance width by the cap height), darker than 66 of the 97 other display fonts. Each solid letter is ringed by an outline with a clear gap between them, as on college lettering.

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 32.7% of the cap height, and the blank space either side of a lowercase letter takes up 9.5% of its width. Spacing is adjusted with 154 kerning pairs, more than 77 of the 97 other display fonts. The tightest of them is VA, which closes up by 26.3% of the cap height. The figures have different widths, so columns of numbers set in Campus Varsity will not line up exactly.

Campus Varsity is drawn on the same letter structure as 8 other fonts in the library. Compared with Campus Varsity, Rodeo Slab keeps the letters plain, without the varsity effect and sets 14% wider. Bandit Slab keeps the letters plain, without the varsity effect, sets 16% narrower and has a 77% x-height. Frost Slab adds caps of snow and sets 10% narrower.