Candy Heart Slab

Candy Heart Slab's lowercase x reaches 71.5% of the capital height, close to the 69.6% median for serif fonts, taller than 26 of the 39 other serif fonts. Ascenders on b, d, h, k and l line up with the capitals (100% of their height), and descenders on g, j, p, q and y drop 29.3% of the cap height below the baseline, deeper than 21 of the 39 other serif fonts. Its letters are of average width for serif fonts: an average lowercase letter, spacing included, is 85.9% as wide as the capitals are tall (an average capital, 99.1%), within 0% of the median. The o is close to a circle, 1.06 times as wide as it is tall, and W is the widest capital, at 1.34 times the width of H. Round letters overshoot: O rises 2.8% of the cap height above H and dips 1.6% below the baseline.

The letters stand upright, with no measurable slant. Vertical stems measure 19.1% of the cap height, heavier than 26 of the 35 other serif fonts. Ink covers 44.8% of each lowercase letter's box (its advance width by the cap height), darker than 34 of the 39 other serif fonts. Strokes keep one thickness in every direction: the sides of o and O measure the same 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 36.3% of the cap height, and the blank space either side of a lowercase letter takes up 7.9% of its width. Spacing is adjusted with 272 kerning pairs, more than 30 of the 39 other serif fonts. The tightest of them is AY, which closes up by 30.5% of the cap height. The figures have different widths, so columns of numbers set in Candy Heart Slab will not line up exactly.

3 other library fonts share Candy Heart Slab's underlying letter structure. Compared with Candy Heart Slab, Manuscript Mono puts down 37% less ink. Clubhouse Slab rings each letter with an outline.