Dreamslug Grotesk

The x-height is a compact 67.5% of the cap height, below the 76.2% median for display fonts, lower than 95 of the 99 other display fonts. Ascenders on b, d, h, k and l line up with the capitals (99.2% of their height), and descenders on g, j, p, q and y drop 28% of the cap height below the baseline, deeper than 83 of the 99 other display fonts. It sets narrow: an average lowercase letter, spacing included, is 62.7% as wide as the capitals are tall (an average capital, 74.1%), 29.9% less than the median for display fonts, so more words fit on a line. The o is an upright oval, 0.77 times as wide as it is tall, and M is the widest capital, at 1.30 times the width of H. The O stops 0.4% of the cap height short of H and dips 1.8% below the baseline.

The letters stand upright, with no measurable slant. Vertical stems measure 28.3% of the cap height, heavier than 32 of the 45 other display fonts. Ink covers 49.3% of each lowercase letter's box (its advance width by the cap height), darker than 79 of the 99 other display fonts. The contrast is reversed: the tops and bottoms of o and O are 1.3 times as thick as their sides.

Its 345 characters include 245 Latin letters, plus 100 figures, punctuation marks and symbols; 193 of the Latin letters are accented or special forms beyond A to Z. The word space measures 28.5% of the cap height, and the blank space either side of a lowercase letter takes up 15% of its width. Spacing is adjusted with 10,920 kerning pairs, the most of all 100 display fonts. The tightest of them is Ty, which closes up by 22.3% of the cap height. The figures have different widths, so columns of numbers set in Dreamslug Grotesk will not line up exactly.