Chrome Inline Slab

Its lowercase is tall: the x-height is 81.1% of the cap height, against a median of 76.2% for display fonts, taller than 86 of the 97 other display fonts. Ascenders on b, d, h, k and l rise 3.4% above the capitals, and descenders on g, j, p, q and y drop 23.6% of the cap height below the baseline, shallower than 50 of the 97 other display fonts. Chrome Inline Slab runs 18.9% wider than the median for display fonts: an average lowercase letter, spacing included, is 106.3% as wide as the capitals are tall (an average capital, 117.5%). The o is wider than it is tall, 1.16 to 1, and W is the widest capital, at 1.28 times the width of H. Round letters overshoot: O rises 1.1% of the cap height above H and dips 1.1% below the baseline.

Ink covers 43.5% of each lowercase letter's box (its advance width by the cap height), darker than 54 of the 97 other display fonts. A thin line is cut along the middle of every stroke.

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 38.6% of the cap height, and the blank space either side of a lowercase letter takes up 11.8% of its width. Spacing is adjusted with 130 kerning pairs, more than 72 of the 97 other display fonts. The tightest of them is VA, which closes up by 29.4% of the cap height. The figures have different widths, so columns of numbers set in Chrome Inline Slab will not line up exactly.

8 other library fonts share Chrome Inline Slab's underlying letter structure. Compared with Chrome Inline Slab, Mech Slab Outline draws the letters as hollow outlines and puts down 59% less ink. Pulse Slab Stripes cuts horizontal stripes through the letters. Station Slab keeps the letters plain, without the inline effect.