Skyline Deco

Its lowercase sits low: the x-height is 72.7% of the cap height, where the median for display fonts is 76.2%, lower than 69 of the 97 other display fonts. Ascenders on b, d, h, k and l rise 4.1% above the capitals, and descenders on g, j, p, q and y drop 28.7% of the cap height below the baseline, deeper than 85 of the 97 other display fonts. Skyline Deco runs 5.6% wider than the median for display fonts: an average lowercase letter, spacing included, is 94.4% as wide as the capitals are tall (an average capital, 105.6%). The o is wider than it is tall, 1.23 to 1, and W is the widest capital, at 1.20 times the width of H. Round letters overshoot: O rises 1.4% of the cap height above H and dips 1.4% below the baseline.

The letters stand upright, with no measurable slant. Vertical stems measure 21.4% of the cap height, lighter than 26 of the 43 other display fonts. Ink covers 34.8% of each lowercase letter's box (its advance width by the cap height), lighter than 71 of the 97 other display fonts. Strokes change thickness with direction: the sides of o and O are 4.9 times as thick as their tops and bottoms.

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 38.6% of the cap height, and the blank space either side of a lowercase letter takes up 16.3% of its width. Spacing is adjusted with 128 kerning pairs, more than 71 of the 97 other display fonts. The tightest of them is LY, which closes up by 26.7% of the cap height. The figures have different widths, so columns of numbers set in Skyline Deco will not line up exactly.

19 other library fonts share Skyline Deco's underlying letter structure. Compared with Skyline Deco, Garrison Stencil adds military stencil bridges and has a 79% x-height. Sweetie Sans sets 8% narrower. Halo Light sets 24% narrower, puts down 52% less ink and has a 81% x-height.