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Benne

Benne is one of only eleven families in the library that cover Kannada. It carries true small capitals, a feature present in 179 of the 1,899 families.

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

Measure, per 1,000 em	Benne	Median of 354 serifs
Ascender (top of d)	704	747
Cap height (top of H)	653	700
x-height (top of x)	405	482
Descender (foot of p)	−285	−233
x-height ÷ cap height	0.62	0.70
Average lowercase width	435	514
Ink coverage, a–z	40.5%	41.5%

Where it sitsEvery serif family is a dot

X-height across the 336 serifs with ascenders

302600

Just below: Scheherazade New, Balthazar; just above: Grandiflora One, Suranna; level with: EB Garamond

Average lowercase width across the 354 serifs

2751,028

Just below: Gupter, Libre Caslon Condensed; just above: Goudy Bookletter 1911, Bacasime Antique

Weights and styles

A single static weight, Regular (400), with no italic.

Scripts3 subsets · families sharing each

Inside the file

In the measured file: 978 glyphs and 505 mapped Unicode characters; 16 OpenType feature tags.

Declared features: capitals to small capitals, fractions, superscripts, subscripts, ordinals and discretionary ligatures.

Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em

EB Garamondequal x-height, wider Fanwood Textshorter x-height, wider Linden Hillshorter x-height, wider Newsreadertaller x-height, wider Buenardtaller x-height, wider Cormorant Uprightshorter x-height, narrower

Outside the serif class

Ysabeautaller x-height, wider Ysabeau Officetaller x-height, wider Ysabeau Infanttaller x-height, wider

Rank every family against Benne