Zombie Marker

Zombie Marker's lowercase x reaches 74.4% of the capital height, close to the 74.5% median for decorative fonts, lower than 18 of the 35 other decorative fonts. Ascenders on b, d, h, k and l stop at 96.6% of the capital height, and descenders on g, j, p, q and y drop 22.4% of the cap height below the baseline, shallower than 20 of the 35 other decorative fonts. Its letters are of average width for decorative fonts: an average lowercase letter, spacing included, is 79% as wide as the capitals are tall (an average capital, 89.8%), within 3.7% of the median. The o is an upright oval, 0.90 times as wide as it is tall, and W is the widest capital, at 1.25 times the width of H. The O stops 0.9% of the cap height short of H and dips 12.8% below the baseline.

The letters stand upright, with no measurable slant. Vertical stems measure 13.3% of the cap height, lighter than 17 of the 22 other decorative fonts. Ink covers 33% of each lowercase letter's box (its advance width by the cap height), lighter than 25 of the 35 other decorative fonts. The contrast is reversed: the tops and bottoms of o and O are 1.5 times as thick as their sides. Paint drips hang from the undersides of the strokes.

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 33.5% of the cap height, and the blank space either side of a lowercase letter takes up 11.6% of its width. Spacing is adjusted with 104 kerning pairs, fewer than 23 of the 35 other decorative fonts. The tightest of them is AT, which closes up by 23.8% of the cap height. The figures have different widths, so columns of numbers set in Zombie Marker will not line up exactly.

3 other library fonts share Zombie Marker's underlying letter structure. Compared with Zombie Marker, Wobble Print keeps the letters plain, without the drip effect. Doodle Pixel rebuilds the letters on a pixel grid, sets 6% narrower and puts down 17% less ink. Quirk Outline draws the letters as hollow outlines and puts down 59% less ink.