Disco Wave Shadow

Disco Wave Shadow's lowercase x reaches 77.7% of the capital height, close to the 76.2% median for display fonts, taller than 57 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 23.4% of the cap height below the baseline, shallower than 55 of the 97 other display fonts. Disco Wave Shadow runs 15.2% wider than the median for display fonts: an average lowercase letter, spacing included, is 103% as wide as the capitals are tall (an average capital, 115.9%). The o is wider than it is tall, 1.34 to 1, and W is the widest capital, at 1.25 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 41.6% of each lowercase letter's box (its advance width by the cap height), darker than 50 of the 97 other display fonts. Each letter carries a drop shadow, kept apart from it by a small gap.

Its 2,575 characters include 2,401 Korean Hangul and 105 Latin letters, plus 69 figures, punctuation marks and symbols; 53 of the Latin letters are accented or special forms beyond A to Z. The word space measures 41.4% of the cap height, and the blank space either side of a lowercase letter takes up 10.3% of its width. Spacing is adjusted with 106 kerning pairs, more than 65 of the 97 other display fonts. The tightest of them is AY, which closes up by 29.2% of the cap height. The figures have different widths, so columns of numbers set in Disco Wave Shadow will not line up exactly.

4 other library fonts share Disco Wave Shadow's underlying letter structure. Compared with Disco Wave Shadow, Wave Inline cuts a thin line along each stroke and sets 8% narrower. Groove Outline draws the letters as hollow outlines, sets 11% narrower and puts down 68% less ink. Lava Groove keeps the letters plain, without the shadow effect, sets 7% narrower and puts down 20% more ink.