Terrace Deco

The x-height is a compact 60.3% of the cap height, below the 76.2% median for display fonts, the lowest of all 98 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. Its letters are of average width for display fonts: an average lowercase letter, spacing included, is 89.1% as wide as the capitals are tall (an average capital, 100%), within 0.3% of the median. The o is wider than it is tall, 1.39 to 1, and W is the widest capital, at 1.23 times the width of H. Round letters overshoot: O rises 1.5% of the cap height above H and dips 1.5% below the baseline.

The letters stand upright, with no measurable slant. Vertical stems measure 17.1% of the cap height, lighter than 34 of the 43 other display fonts. Ink covers 29.9% of each lowercase letter's box (its advance width by the cap height), lighter than 79 of the 97 other display fonts. Strokes change thickness with direction: the sides of o and O are 3.4 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 37.1% 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 116 kerning pairs, more than 67 of the 97 other display fonts. The tightest of them is LT, which closes up by 25.1% of the cap height. The figures have different widths, so columns of numbers set in Terrace Deco will not line up exactly.

Terrace Deco is drawn on the same letter structure as 19 other fonts in the library. Compared with Terrace Deco, Giggle Sans puts down 36% more ink and has a 78% x-height. Orb Pixel rebuilds the letters on a pixel grid, sets 9% narrower and puts down 15% more ink. Plaza Sans sets 14% narrower, puts down 20% less ink and has a 74% x-height.