Wyrm Rotunda Outline

The x-height is a compact 72.5% of the cap height, below the 74.5% median for decorative fonts, lower than 25 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 30.2% of the cap height below the baseline, deeper than 31 of the 35 other decorative fonts. It sets narrow: an average lowercase letter, spacing included, is 63% as wide as the capitals are tall (an average capital, 103.4%), 17.3% less than the median for decorative fonts, so more words fit on a line. The o is an upright oval, 0.83 times as wide as it is tall, and M is the widest capital, at 1.27 times the width of H. The O stops 0.5% of the cap height short of H and sits on the baseline.

Ink covers 16.5% of each lowercase letter's box (its advance width by the cap height), level with the lightest of the 36 decorative fonts. The letters are hollow: every stroke is drawn as a thin outline band.

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 32.6% of the cap height, and the blank space either side of a lowercase letter takes up 6.7% of its width. Spacing is adjusted with 223 kerning pairs, more than 23 of the 35 other decorative fonts. The tightest of them is TA, which closes up by 20.2% of the cap height. The figures have different widths, so columns of numbers set in Wyrm Rotunda Outline will not line up exactly.

Wyrm Rotunda Outline is drawn on the same letter structure as 2 other fonts in the library. Compared with Wyrm Rotunda Outline, Saga Rotunda Shadow adds a separate drop shadow and puts down 126% more ink. Rotunda Tale keeps the letters plain, without the outline effect and puts down 107% more ink.