Heart Shadow Script

Heart Shadow Script's lowercase x reaches 48.4% of the capital height, close to the 48.4% median for script fonts, lower than 27 of the 53 other script 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 50.3% of the cap height below the baseline, shallower than 27 of the 53 other script fonts. Its letters are of average width for script fonts: an average lowercase letter, spacing included, is 62% as wide as the capitals are tall (an average capital, 104.4%), within 3.3% of the median. The o is wider than it is tall, 1.44 to 1, and N is the widest capital, at 1.16 times the width of H. The O stops 0.8% of the cap height short of H and sits on the baseline.

Ink covers 35.4% of each lowercase letter's box (its advance width by the cap height), darker than 41 of the 53 other script fonts. Each letter carries a drop shadow, kept apart from it by a small gap.

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 33% of the cap height, and lowercase letters reach 24% past their own widths into the space of their neighbours. Spacing is adjusted with 44 kerning pairs, fewer than 31 of the 53 other script fonts. The tightest of them is TA, which closes up by 29.4% of the cap height. The figures have different widths, so columns of numbers set in Heart Shadow Script will not line up exactly.

13 other library fonts share Heart Shadow Script's underlying letter structure. Compared with Heart Shadow Script, Phantom Script adds paint drips, sets 11% narrower and has a 55% x-height. Starlit Script keeps the letters plain, without the shadow effect, sets 19% wider and puts down 36% less ink. Bouquet Script keeps the letters plain, without the shadow effect, sets 19% wider and puts down 31% less ink.