Saga Rotunda Shadow

Saga Rotunda Shadow's lowercase x reaches 72.7% of the capital height, close to the 74.5% median for decorative fonts, lower than 23 of the 35 other decorative fonts. Ascenders on b, d, h, k and l line up with the capitals (99% of their height), and descenders on g, j, p, q and y drop 30% of the cap height below the baseline, deeper than 30 of the 35 other decorative fonts. Saga Rotunda Shadow runs 17.6% narrower than the median for decorative fonts: an average lowercase letter, spacing included, is 62.8% as wide as the capitals are tall (an average capital, 102.8%). The o is an upright oval, 0.83 times as wide as it is tall, and M is the widest capital, at 1.27 times the width of H. The O stops 0.5% of the cap height short of H and sits on the baseline.

Ink covers 37.3% of each lowercase letter's box (its advance width by the cap height), darker than 18 of the 35 other decorative 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 31.9% of the cap height, and the blank space either side of a lowercase letter takes up 6.4% of its width. Spacing is adjusted with 225 kerning pairs, more than 24 of the 35 other decorative fonts. The tightest of them is Tz, which closes up by 16.7% of the cap height. The figures have different widths, so columns of numbers set in Saga Rotunda Shadow will not line up exactly.

2 other library fonts share Saga Rotunda Shadow's underlying letter structure. Compared with Saga Rotunda Shadow, Rotunda Tale keeps the letters plain, without the shadow effect. Wyrm Rotunda Outline draws the letters as hollow outlines and puts down 56% less ink.