Needle Formal

Needle Formal's lowercase x reaches 48.6% of the capital height, close to the 48.4% median for script fonts, taller than 28 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 50.1% of the cap height below the baseline, shallower than 28 of the 53 other script fonts. Its letters are of average width for script fonts: an average lowercase letter, spacing included, is 63.8% as wide as the capitals are tall (an average capital, 112.5%), within 0.5% of the median. The o is wider than it is tall, 1.49 to 1, and N is the widest capital, at 1.15 times the width of H. The O stops 0.8% of the cap height short of H and sits on the baseline.

The letters lean roughly 20° to the right. Ink covers 38.8% of each lowercase letter's box (its advance width by the cap height), darker than 46 of the 53 other script 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 34.9% of the cap height, and lowercase letters reach 29.3% past their own widths into the space of their neighbours. Spacing is adjusted with 26 kerning pairs, fewer than 42 of the 53 other script fonts. The tightest of them is FA, which closes up by 24.2% of the cap height. The figures have different widths, so columns of numbers set in Needle Formal will not line up exactly.

13 other library fonts share Needle Formal's underlying letter structure. Compared with Needle Formal, Tinsel Outline draws the letters as hollow outlines and puts down 50% less ink. Promenade Script puts down 42% less ink. Heart Shadow Script adds a separate drop shadow.