Sunset Shadow

Its lowercase is tall: the x-height is 78.4% of the cap height, against a median of 76.2% for display fonts, taller than 65 of the 97 other display fonts. Ascenders on b, d, h, k and l rise 3.2% above the capitals, and descenders on g, j, p, q and y drop 22.7% of the cap height below the baseline, shallower than 60 of the 97 other display fonts. Sunset Shadow runs 17.1% wider than the median for display fonts: an average lowercase letter, spacing included, is 104.7% as wide as the capitals are tall (an average capital, 116.8%). The o is wider than it is tall, 1.31 to 1, and W is the widest capital, at 1.27 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.

Ink covers 44.9% of each lowercase letter's box (its advance width by the cap height), darker than 60 of the 97 other display fonts. Each letter carries a drop shadow, kept apart from it by a small gap.

Its 3,329 characters include 2,967 Chinese, 170 Japanese kana and 105 Latin letters, plus 87 figures, punctuation marks and symbols; 53 of the Latin letters are accented or special forms beyond A to Z. The word space measures 40.1% of the cap height, and the blank space either side of a lowercase letter takes up 13.4% of its width. Spacing is adjusted with 88 kerning pairs, more than 53 of the 97 other display fonts. The tightest of them is LY, which closes up by 28.4% of the cap height. The figures have different widths, so columns of numbers set in Sunset Shadow will not line up exactly.

12 other library fonts share Sunset Shadow's underlying letter structure. Compared with Sunset Shadow, Bulwark Block keeps the letters plain, without the shadow effect and has a 83% x-height. Orbit Outline draws the letters as hollow outlines and puts down 62% less ink. Arcade Inline cuts a thin line along each stroke and puts down 16% less ink.