Serif Western Slab

Its lowercase is tall: the x-height is 74.3% of the cap height, against a median of 69.6% for serif fonts, taller than 31 of the 39 other serif fonts. Ascenders on b, d, h, k and l line up with the capitals (101% of their height), and descenders on g, j, p, q and y drop 16.1% of the cap height below the baseline, the shallowest of all 40 serif fonts. Serif Western Slab runs 8.6% narrower than the median for serif fonts: an average lowercase letter, spacing included, is 78.5% as wide as the capitals are tall (an average capital, 82.2%). The o is close to a circle, 0.93 times as wide as it is tall, and M is the widest capital, at 1.09 times the width of H. The O stops 2.7% of the cap height short of H and dips 1.1% below the baseline.

The letters stand upright, with no measurable slant. Vertical stems measure 27.9% of the cap height, the heaviest of all 36 serif fonts. Ink covers 53.4% of each lowercase letter's box (its advance width by the cap height), the darkest of all 40 serif fonts. Strokes change thickness with direction: the sides of o and O are 1.7 times as thick as their tops and bottoms.

Its 95 characters include 52 Latin letters, plus 43 figures, punctuation marks and symbols; there are no accented Latin letters beyond A to Z. The word space measures 45.9% of the cap height, and the blank space either side of a lowercase letter takes up 12.6% of its width. The font carries no kerning, so spacing comes from each letter’s own side bearings. The figures have different widths, so columns of numbers set in Serif Western Slab will not line up exactly.