Doodle Bounce

The x-height is a compact 69% of the cap height, below the 73.3% median for handwriting fonts, lower than 19 of the 21 other handwriting fonts. Ascenders on b, d, h, k and l stop at 96.5% of the capital height, and descenders on g, j, p, q and y drop 32.8% of the cap height below the baseline, the deepest of all 22 handwriting fonts. It sets narrow: an average lowercase letter, spacing included, is 69.7% as wide as the capitals are tall (an average capital, 86.3%), 6.8% less than the median for handwriting fonts, so more words fit on a line. The o is close to a circle, 1.09 times as wide as it is tall, and W is the widest capital, at 1.19 times the width of H. The O rises 6.9% of the cap height above H and stands 2.1% above the baseline.

The letters stand upright, with no measurable slant. Vertical stems measure 9.8% of the cap height, the lightest of all 12 handwriting fonts. Ink covers 26.8% of each lowercase letter's box (its advance width by the cap height), lighter than 18 of the 21 other handwriting 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 34.2% of the cap height, and the blank space either side of a lowercase letter takes up 12.6% of its width. Spacing is adjusted with 98 kerning pairs, fewer than 11 of the 21 other handwriting fonts. The tightest of them is AY, which closes up by 25.3% of the cap height. The figures have different widths, so columns of numbers set in Doodle Bounce will not line up exactly.

Doodle Bounce is drawn on the same letter structure as one other font in the library. Compared with Doodle Bounce, Doodle Outline draws the letters as hollow outlines, sets 18% wider and puts down 40% less ink.