Executive Sign

The x-height is a compact 45% of the cap height, below the 48.4% median for script fonts, lower than 50 of the 53 other script fonts. Ascenders on b, d, h, k and l line up with the capitals (99.1% of their height), and descenders on g, j, p, q and y drop 53.5% of the cap height below the baseline, deeper than 51 of the 53 other script fonts. Its letters are of average width for script fonts: an average lowercase letter, spacing included, is 63.7% as wide as the capitals are tall (an average capital, 115.9%), within 0.6% of the median. The o is wider than it is tall, 1.50 to 1, and N is the widest capital, at 1.15 times the width of H. The O stops 0.9% of the cap height short of H and sits on the baseline.

Ink covers 17.9% of each lowercase letter's box (its advance width by the cap height), lighter than 43 of the 53 other script fonts.

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 32.9% of the cap height, and lowercase letters reach 29.7% past their own widths into the space of their neighbours. Spacing is adjusted with 37 kerning pairs, fewer than 39 of the 53 other script fonts. The tightest of them is TA, which closes up by 30.4% of the cap height. The figures have different widths, so columns of numbers set in Executive Sign will not line up exactly.

Executive Sign is drawn on the same letter structure as 13 other fonts in the library. Compared with Executive Sign, Starlit Script sets 16% wider and puts down 27% more ink. Soiree Script sets 11% narrower and puts down 44% more ink. Promenade Script puts down 25% more ink.