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Anek Odia

The library lists Anek Odia together with nine more families that share a designer with it and either its name or its measurements, one of the nine largest such groups. It is one of only six families in the library that cover Odia.

Outlines drawn from the AnekOdia file at weight 400. The dashed line is the median x-height of the sans serifs.

Measure, per 1,000 em	Anek Odia	Median of 732 sans serifs
Ascender (top of d)	662	740
Cap height (top of H)	639	702
x-height (top of x)	488	519
Descender (foot of p)	−172	−213
x-height ÷ cap height	0.76	0.70
Average lowercase width	478	522
Ink coverage, a–z	41.4%	40.2%

Versions and companionsA shared designer and a shared name or matching measurements

Version	Compared with Anek Odia	Added
Anek Bangla	adds Bengali	2022
Anek Devanagari	adds Devanagari	2022
Anek Gujarati	adds Gujarati	2022
Anek Gurmukhi	adds Gurmukhi	2022
Anek Kannada	adds Kannada	2022
Anek Latin	adds Vietnamese	2022
Anek Malayalam	adds Malayalam	2022
Anek Tamil	adds Tamil	2022
Anek Telugu	adds Telugu	2022

Where it sitsEvery sans serif family is a dot

X-height across the 716 sans serifs with ascenders

294672

Just below: Red Hat Mono, Red Hat Text; just above: Gayathri, Kumbh Sans; level with: Anek Bangla, Anek Devanagari, Anek Gujarati

Average lowercase width across the 732 sans serifs

1831,319

Just below: Nuosu SIL, Antic; just above: Basic, Carrois Gothic; level with: Anek Bangla, Anek Devanagari, Anek Gujarati

Weights and styles

One variable file per style covers every weight from 100 to 800, with no italic; eight of the nine standard steps fall inside that range.

Axis	Tag	Range	In the library
Width	wdth	75 to 125	99 families
Weight	wght	100 to 800	545 families

Scripts3 subsets · families sharing each

Inside the file

In the measured file: 714 glyphs and 347 mapped Unicode characters; 30 OpenType feature tags.

Declared features: tabular figures, fractions, superscripts, subscripts, ordinals, standard ligatures, discretionary ligatures, slashed zero and case-sensitive forms.

Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em

Outside the sans serif class

Faustinataller x-height, narrower Baloo 2shorter x-height, wider Baloo Bhai 2shorter x-height, wider

Rank every family against Anek Odia

Same designer

Ek Type is credited on 19 other families in the library, from Ek Mukta (2014) to Jaini Purva (2024); the closest of them in x-height and width is Ek Mukta.