Sailor Script

Its x-height is 50.1% of the cap height, near the 48.4% typical of script fonts in the library, taller than 34 of the 53 other script fonts. Ascenders on b, d, h, k and l line up with the capitals (99.6% of their height), and descenders on g, j, p, q and y drop 49.8% of the cap height below the baseline, shallower than 29 of the 53 other script fonts. It sets wide: an average lowercase letter, spacing included, is 67.4% as wide as the capitals are tall (an average capital, 111.8%), 5.1% more than the median for script fonts, so the same words take a longer line. The o is wider than it is tall, 1.69 to 1, and M is the widest capital, at 1.30 times the width of H. The O tops out level with H and stands 0.6% above the baseline.

Ink covers 38.6% of each lowercase letter's box (its advance width by the cap height), darker than 45 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 37.7% of the cap height, and lowercase letters reach 26% past their own widths into the space of their neighbours. Spacing is adjusted with 40 kerning pairs, fewer than 36 of the 53 other script fonts. The tightest of them is TA, which closes up by 28.8% of the cap height. The figures have different widths, so columns of numbers set in Sailor Script will not line up exactly.

Sailor Script is drawn on the same letter structure as 14 other fonts in the library. Compared with Sailor Script, Flourish Sign sets 6% wider, puts down 65% less ink and has a 46% x-height. Inkwell Script puts down 15% more ink. Wave Rider Outline draws the letters as hollow outlines, sets 8% narrower and puts down 45% less ink.