Parlour Italic Shadow

Its lowercase sits low: the x-height is 70.7% of the cap height, where the median for display fonts is 76.2%, lower than 82 of the 97 other display fonts. Ascenders on b, d, h, k and l line up with the capitals (100% of their height), and descenders on g, j, p, q and y drop 30.8% of the cap height below the baseline, deeper than 96 of the 97 other display fonts. Its letters are of average width for display fonts: an average lowercase letter, spacing included, is 89.7% as wide as the capitals are tall (an average capital, 105.8%), within 0.3% of the median. The o is close to a circle, 1.03 times as wide as it is tall, and M is the widest capital, at 1.07 times the width of H. Round letters overshoot: O rises 0.7% of the cap height above H and dips 1.2% below the baseline.

Ink covers 31.1% of each lowercase letter's box (its advance width by the cap height), lighter than 78 of the 97 other display fonts. Each letter carries a drop shadow, kept apart from it by a small gap.

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 32.6% of the cap height, and the blank space either side of a lowercase letter takes up 4.6% of its width. Spacing is adjusted with 53 kerning pairs, fewer than 59 of the 97 other display fonts. The tightest of them is VA, which closes up by 26.8% of the cap height. The figures have different widths, so columns of numbers set in Parlour Italic Shadow will not line up exactly.

4 other library fonts share Parlour Italic Shadow's underlying letter structure. Compared with Parlour Italic Shadow, Quest Italic keeps the letters plain, without the shadow effect. Pointe Italic keeps the letters plain, without the shadow effect and puts down 34% less ink. Vogue Italic keeps the letters plain, without the shadow effect and puts down 34% less ink.