Lobby Deco

The x-height is a compact 72.7% of the cap height, below the 76.2% median for display fonts, lower than 69 of the 97 other display fonts. Ascenders on b, d, h, k and l rise 4.1% above the capitals, and descenders on g, j, p, q and y drop 28.7% of the cap height below the baseline, deeper than 85 of the 97 other display fonts. It sets narrow: an average lowercase letter, spacing included, is 78.7% as wide as the capitals are tall (an average capital, 85.9%), 12% less than the median for display fonts, so more words fit on a line. The o is close to a circle, 0.96 times as wide as it is tall, and W is the widest capital, at 1.13 times the width of H. Round letters overshoot: O rises 1.8% of the cap height above H and dips 1.8% below the baseline.

The letters stand upright, with no measurable slant. Vertical stems measure 21.4% of the cap height, lighter than 26 of the 43 other display fonts. Ink covers 42.4% of each lowercase letter's box (its advance width by the cap height), darker than 52 of the 97 other display fonts. Strokes change thickness with direction: the sides of o and O are 3.0 times as thick 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 30.7% of the cap height, and the blank space either side of a lowercase letter takes up 19.6% of its width. Spacing is adjusted with 60 kerning pairs, fewer than 56 of the 97 other display fonts. The tightest of them is LY, which closes up by 17.3% of the cap height. The figures have different widths, so columns of numbers set in Lobby Deco will not line up exactly.

Lobby Deco is drawn on the same letter structure as 19 other fonts in the library. Compared with Lobby Deco, Radio Deco cuts a thin line along each stroke, sets 10% wider and has a 81% x-height. Peppermint cuts candy-cane stripes through the letters, sets 20% wider and puts down 50% less ink. Foyer Inline cuts a thin line along each stroke, sets 26% wider and has a 79% x-height.