John Hudson and Tiro Typeworks
John Hudson is credited on 13 families in the library. The first was added in 2014 and the latest in 2023. Every one is filed as serif. Two are variable fonts. Tiro Typeworks shares the credit on 11 families of them, so both names lead to this page. The most frequent co-credit is Paul Hanslow, on 7 families.
The familiesIn order of addition, each name set in its own outlines
Range of the work
The lowercase runs from STIX Two Math, the shortest at 473 units per 1,000 em, to Slabo 13px at 538. In width, Slabo 27px is the narrowest (454) and Castoro Titling the widest (694). Beyond Latin, the families cover nine subsets: Bengali, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Devanagari, Greek, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Telugu, Vietnamese. Measured against the medians of their own classes, one of the twelve families with ascenders have a taller x-height, two of all 13 set a wider lowercase and eleven a darker one.
Against the class medianDifferences from the median of each family’s class, per 1,000 em; ink in percentage points
| Family | Class | x-height | Width | Ink | Weights | Subsets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Slabo 13px | Serif | +57 | +34 | −2 pts | 400 | 2 |
| Slabo 27px | Serif | ±0 | −59 | +2 pts | 400 | 2 |
| Castoro | Serif | −5 | −2 | +5 pts | 400–700 + italic | 2 |
| Tiro Bangla | Serif | −5 | −1 | +5 pts | 400 + italic | 3 |
| Tiro Devanagari Hindi | Serif | −5 | −1 | +5 pts | 400 + italic | 3 |
| Tiro Devanagari Marathi | Serif | −5 | −1 | +5 pts | 400 + italic | 3 |
| Tiro Devanagari Sanskrit | Serif | −5 | −1 | +5 pts | 400 + italic | 3 |
| Tiro Gurmukhi | Serif | −5 | −1 | +5 pts | 400 + italic | 3 |
| Tiro Kannada | Serif | −5 | −1 | +5 pts | 400 + italic | 3 |
| Tiro Telugu | Serif | −5 | −1 | +5 pts | 400 + italic | 3 |
| STIX Two Math | Serif | −9 | −33 | ±0 pts | 400 | 0 |
| STIX Two Text | Serif | −9 | −33 | +1 pts | 400–700 + italic | 6 |
| Castoro Titling | Serif | no ascenders | +181 | −19 pts | 400 | 2 |