Magma Cipher Grotesk

Its lowercase sits low: the x-height is 72.3% of the cap height, where the median for pixel fonts is 78.9%, lower than 7 of the 12 other pixel fonts. Ascenders on b, d, h, k and l rise 3.4% above the capitals, and descenders on g, j, p, q and y drop 28.4% of the cap height below the baseline, deeper than 9 of the 12 other pixel fonts. Magma Cipher Grotesk runs 23.6% narrower than the median for pixel fonts: an average lowercase letter, spacing included, is 62.9% as wide as the capitals are tall (an average capital, 71.8%). The o is an upright oval, 0.79 times as wide as it is tall, and W is the widest capital, at 1.50 times the width of H. The O rises 0.4% of the cap height above H and sits on the baseline.

The letters stand upright, with no measurable slant. Vertical stems measure 19.5% of the cap height, heavier than 5 of the 6 other pixel fonts. Ink covers 51.6% of each lowercase letter's box (its advance width by the cap height), the darkest of all 13 pixel fonts. It is close to monoline, with the sides of o and O 0.92 times as thick as their tops and bottoms.

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 29.2% 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 13 pixel fonts. The tightest of them is Td, which closes up by 20.1% of the cap height. The figures have different widths, so columns of numbers set in Magma Cipher Grotesk will not line up exactly.