Civic Sans 3D Rounded Offset Contour Font

Its x-height is 69.9% of the cap height, near the 71.4% typical of sans serif fonts in the library, lower than 24 of the 35 other sans 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 30.2% of the cap height below the baseline, deeper than 25 of the 35 other sans serif fonts. It sets narrow: an average lowercase letter, spacing included, is 68% as wide as the capitals are tall (an average capital, 82.9%), 13% less than the median for sans serif fonts, so more words fit on a line. The o is close to a circle, 1.00 times as wide as it is tall, and W is the widest capital, at 1.18 times the width of H. Round letters overshoot: O rises 3.2% of the cap height above H and dips 1.5% below the baseline.

Ink covers 23.9% of each lowercase letter's box (its advance width by the cap height), lighter than 20 of the 35 other sans serif fonts. Each letter carries a solid 3D extrusion joined to its face.

Its 3,329 characters include 2,967 Chinese, 170 Japanese kana and 105 Latin letters, plus 87 figures, punctuation marks and symbols; 53 of the Latin letters are accented or special forms beyond A to Z. The word space measures 33.6% of the cap height, and the blank space either side of a lowercase letter takes up 14.1% 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 Civic Sans 3D will not line up exactly.

Civic Sans 3D is Civic Sans with the 3D effect applied to every letter. Civic Sans 3D is drawn on the same letter structure as 6 other fonts in the library. Compared with Civic Sans 3D, Corps Condensed Stencil adds military stencil bridges, puts down 52% more ink and adds Afrikaans, Azerbaijani, Bosnian and 9 more languages. Ledger Sans keeps the letters plain, without the 3D effect, sets 12% wider and adds Greek, Filipino, Malay and 2 more languages. Field Stencil adds military stencil bridges, sets 15% wider and puts down 36% more ink.