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Big Shoulders

The library lists Big Shoulders together with 14 more families that share a designer with it and either its name or its measurements, one of the six largest such groups. It carries true small capitals, a feature present in 179 of the 1,899 families.

Outlines drawn from the BigShoulders file at weight 400. The dashed line is the median x-height of the display faces.
Measure, per 1,000 emBig ShouldersMedian of 472 display faces
Ascender (top of d)800726
Cap height (top of H)800701
x-height (top of x)600507
Descender (foot of p)−200−208
x-height ÷ cap height0.750.70
Average lowercase width336506
Ink coverage, a–z45.6%48.7%

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

VersionCompared with Big ShouldersAdded
Big Shoulders Displaymatching measurements2019
Big Shoulders Display SCmatching measurements2024
Big Shoulders Inlinematching measurements2025
Big Shoulders Inline Displaymatching measurements2020
Big Shoulders Inline Display SCmatching measurements2024
Big Shoulders Inline Textlowercase wider by 322020
Big Shoulders Inline Text SClowercase wider by 402024
Big Shoulders Stencilmatching measurements2025
Big Shoulders Stencil Displaymatching measurements2020
Big Shoulders Stencil Display SCmatching measurements2024
Big Shoulders Stencil Textlowercase wider by 322020
Big Shoulders Stencil Text SClowercase wider by 402024
Big Shoulders Textlowercase wider by 312019
Big Shoulders Text SClowercase wider by 392024

Where it sitsEvery display family is a dot

X-height across the 406 display faces with ascenders

283870

Just below: Protest Revolution, Ranchers; just above: Sigmar, Astloch; level with: Badeen Display, Big Shoulders Display, Big Shoulders Display SC

Average lowercase width across the 472 display faces

2161,293

Just below: Dynalight, Pompiere; just above: Big Shoulders Stencil, Big Shoulders Stencil Display SC; level with: Big Shoulders Display SC

Weights and styles

100200300400500600700800900

One variable file per style covers every weight from 100 to 900, with no italic; nine of the nine standard steps fall inside that range.

AxisTagRangeIn the library
Optical sizeopsz10 to 7229 families
Weightwght100 to 900545 families

Scripts3 subsets · families sharing each

Inside the file

In the measured file: 1,075 glyphs and 719 mapped Unicode characters; 20 OpenType feature tags.

Declared features: capitals to small capitals, fractions, superscripts, subscripts, ordinals, standard ligatures, discretionary ligatures, stylistic alternates, case-sensitive forms and one stylistic set.

Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em

Outside the display class

Cossette Titreequal x-height, widerOswaldshorter x-height, widerVoltaireshorter x-height, wider

Rank every family against Big Shoulders

Same designer

Patric King is also credited on Agdasima.

File: ofl/bigshoulders, google/fonts 9862abc · font software © its authors, SIL Open Font License 1.1 · method