Pulse Slab Stripes

Its lowercase is tall: the x-height is 80.1% of the cap height, against a median of 76.2% for display fonts, taller than 81 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 24.4% of the cap height below the baseline, deeper than 60 of the 97 other display fonts. Pulse Slab Stripes runs 22.1% wider than the median for display fonts: an average lowercase letter, spacing included, is 109.2% as wide as the capitals are tall (an average capital, 123.3%). The o is wider than it is tall, 1.28 to 1, and W is the widest capital, at 1.38 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.

The letters stand upright, with no measurable slant. Ink covers 39.3% of each lowercase letter's box (its advance width by the cap height), lighter than 57 of the 97 other display fonts. It is close to monoline, with the sides of o and O 1.09 times as thick as their tops and bottoms. Thin horizontal stripes cut through the lower half of each letter.

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 41.9% of the cap height, and the blank space either side of a lowercase letter takes up 7% of its width. Spacing is adjusted with 194 kerning pairs, more than 81 of the 97 other display fonts. The tightest of them is VA, which closes up by 37.3% of the cap height. The figures have different widths, so columns of numbers set in Pulse Slab Stripes will not line up exactly.

8 other library fonts share Pulse Slab Stripes's underlying letter structure. Compared with Pulse Slab Stripes, Mech Slab Outline draws the letters as hollow outlines, sets 7% narrower and puts down 55% less ink. Techno Slab 3D adds a 3D extrusion, sets 11% narrower and puts down 16% more ink. Headline Slab keeps the letters plain, without the striped effect and puts down 31% more ink.