Margrave Fraktur

Margrave Fraktur's lowercase x reaches 72.6% of the capital height, close to the 74.5% median for decorative fonts, lower than 24 of the 35 other decorative fonts. Ascenders on b, d, h, k and l line up with the capitals (99.3% of their height), and descenders on g, j, p, q and y drop 22.4% of the cap height below the baseline, shallower than 20 of the 35 other decorative fonts. Margrave Fraktur runs 13.1% narrower than the median for decorative fonts: an average lowercase letter, spacing included, is 66.2% as wide as the capitals are tall (an average capital, 104.9%). The o is close to a circle, 1.05 times as wide as it is tall, and M is the widest capital, at 1.30 times the width of H. The O stops 0.7% of the cap height short of H and stands 0.4% above the baseline.

The letters stand upright, with no measurable slant. Ink covers 31.6% of each lowercase letter's box (its advance width by the cap height), lighter than 27 of the 35 other decorative 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 the blank space either side of a lowercase letter takes up 6.5% of its width. Spacing is adjusted with 190 kerning pairs, fewer than 18 of the 35 other decorative fonts. The tightest of them is FA, which closes up by 23.5% of the cap height. The figures have different widths, so columns of numbers set in Margrave Fraktur will not line up exactly.