Marquee Slab

Its lowercase is tall: the x-height is 80.5% of the cap height, against a median of 76.2% for display fonts, taller than 84 of the 97 other display 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 24.1% of the cap height below the baseline, deeper than 53 of the 97 other display fonts. Marquee Slab runs 17.6% wider than the median for display fonts: an average lowercase letter, spacing included, is 105.1% as wide as the capitals are tall (an average capital, 117.5%). The o is wider than it is tall, 1.20 to 1, and W is the widest capital, at 1.32 times the width of H. Round letters overshoot: O rises 1.1% of the cap height above H and dips 1.1% below the baseline.

Ink covers 40.2% of each lowercase letter's box (its advance width by the cap height), lighter than 56 of the 97 other display fonts. A thin line is cut along the middle of every stroke.

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 39.7% of the cap height, and the blank space either side of a lowercase letter takes up 10% of its width. Spacing is adjusted with 218 kerning pairs, more than 83 of the 97 other display fonts. The tightest of them is VA, which closes up by 33.9% of the cap height. The figures have different widths, so columns of numbers set in Marquee Slab will not line up exactly.

8 other library fonts share Marquee Slab's underlying letter structure. Compared with Marquee Slab, Monolith Slab keeps the letters plain, without the inline effect, sets 10% wider and puts down 29% more ink. Rodeo Slab keeps the letters plain, without the inline effect, sets 7% wider and puts down 21% more ink. Telex Mono keeps the letters plain, without the inline effect, sets 18% narrower and puts down 34% less ink.