Wave Inline

Wave Inline's lowercase x reaches 77.6% of the capital height, close to the 76.2% median for display fonts, taller than 56 of the 97 other display fonts. Ascenders on b, d, h, k and l rise 3.4% above the capitals, and descenders on g, j, p, q and y drop 23.6% of the cap height below the baseline, shallower than 50 of the 97 other display fonts. Wave Inline runs 6.2% wider than the median for display fonts: an average lowercase letter, spacing included, is 94.9% as wide as the capitals are tall (an average capital, 105.9%). The o is wider than it is tall, 1.19 to 1, and W is the widest capital, at 1.21 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 38.6% of each lowercase letter's box (its advance width by the cap height), lighter than 59 of the 97 other display fonts. A thin line is cut along the middle of every stroke.

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 13% of its width. Spacing is adjusted with 81 kerning pairs, fewer than 50 of the 97 other display fonts. The tightest of them is LY, which closes up by 22.6% of the cap height. The figures have different widths, so columns of numbers set in Wave Inline will not line up exactly.

4 other library fonts share Wave Inline's underlying letter structure. Compared with Wave Inline, Lava Groove keeps the letters plain, without the inline effect, puts down 29% more ink and adds Filipino, Japanese (kana), Malay and 2 more languages. Disco Wave Shadow adds a separate drop shadow, sets 9% wider and adds Filipino, Korean (2,350 common syllables), Malay and 2 more languages. Groove Outline draws the letters as hollow outlines, puts down 65% less ink and adds Filipino, Malay, Albanian and 2 more languages.