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Baloo 2

The library lists Baloo 2 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. Its regular file holds 1,601 glyphs, 3.8 times the median of the display faces (423).

Outlines drawn from the Baloo2 file at weight 400. The dashed line is the median x-height of the display faces.

Measure, per 1,000 em	Baloo 2	Median of 472 display faces
Ascender (top of d)	655	726
Cap height (top of H)	613	701
x-height (top of x)	469	507
Descender (foot of p)	−187	−208
x-height ÷ cap height	0.77	0.70
Average lowercase width	489	506
Ink coverage, a–z	40.5%	48.7%

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

Version	Compared with Baloo 2	Added
Baloo Bhai 2	adds Gujarati	2016
Baloo Bhaijaan 2	adds Arabic	2021
Baloo Bhaina 2	adds Odia	2016
Baloo Chettan 2	adds Malayalam	2016
Baloo Da 2	adds Bengali	2016
Baloo Paaji 2	adds Gurmukhi	2016
Baloo Tamma 2	adds Kannada	2016
Baloo Tammudu 2	adds Telugu	2016
Baloo Thambi 2	adds Tamil	2016

Where it sitsEvery display family is a dot

X-height across the 406 display faces with ascenders

283870

Just below: Ranga, Unkempt; just above: Gluten, Cherry Bomb One; level with: Baloo Bhai 2, Baloo Bhaijaan 2, Baloo Bhaina 2

Average lowercase width across the 472 display faces

2161,293

Just below: Stardos Stencil, Supermercado One; just above: Lilita One, Gabarito; level with: Baloo Bhai 2, Baloo Bhaijaan 2, Baloo Bhaina 2

Weights and styles

One variable file per style covers every weight from 400 to 800, with no italic; five of the nine standard steps fall inside that range.

Axis	Tag	Range	In the library
Weight	wght	400 to 800	545 families

Scripts4 subsets · families sharing each

Inside the file

In the measured file: 856 Unicode characters are mapped.

Declared features: tabular figures, fractions, superscripts, subscripts, ordinals, standard ligatures, stylistic alternates and two stylistic sets.

Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em

Outside the display class

Manameshorter x-height, wider Aryataller x-height, narrower Anek Banglataller x-height, narrower

Rank every family against Baloo 2

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.