Vigil Blackletter

Its lowercase sits low: the x-height is 69% of the cap height, where the median for decorative fonts is 74.5%, lower than 34 of the 35 other decorative fonts. Ascenders on b, d, h, k and l line up with the capitals (99% of their height), and descenders on g, j, p, q and y drop 29.9% of the cap height below the baseline, deeper than 29 of the 35 other decorative fonts. Its letters are of average width for decorative fonts: an average lowercase letter, spacing included, is 73.1% as wide as the capitals are tall (an average capital, 104.6%), within 4.1% of the median. The o is close to a circle, 1.09 times as wide as it is tall, and M is the widest capital, at 1.27 times the width of H. The O stops 1% of the cap height short of H and sits on the baseline.

The letters stand upright, with no measurable slant. Ink covers 40.1% of each lowercase letter's box (its advance width by the cap height), darker than 27 of the 35 other decorative 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 34.5% of the cap height, and the blank space either side of a lowercase letter takes up 6.4% of its width. Spacing is adjusted with 211 kerning pairs, more than 20 of the 35 other decorative fonts. The tightest of them is TA, which closes up by 20.3% of the cap height. The figures have different widths, so columns of numbers set in Vigil Blackletter will not line up exactly.

One other library font shares Vigil Blackletter's underlying letter structure. Compared with Vigil Blackletter, Textura Outline draws the letters as hollow outlines and puts down 59% less ink.