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Bitcount Single

Bitcount Single has five variable axes; ten other families in the library have as many or more. Its Cursive axis (CRSV) appears in only seven other families. It carries true small capitals, a feature present in 179 of the 1,899 families.

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

Measure, per 1,000 em	Bitcount Single	Median of 472 display faces
Ascender (top of d)	600	726
Cap height (top of H)	600	701
x-height (top of x)	500	507
Descender (foot of p)	−100	−208
x-height ÷ cap height	0.83	0.70
Average lowercase width	600	506
Ink coverage, a–z	37.0%	48.7%

Where it sitsEvery display family is a dot

X-height across the 406 display faces with ascenders

283870

Just below: Fredericka the Great, Moirai One; just above: Griffy, Agu Display; level with: Bellota, Bellota Text, Bitcount

Average lowercase width across the 472 display faces

2161,293

Just below: Moirai One, Finger Paint; just above: Snowburst One, Rye; level with: Bitcount, Bitcount Grid Double, Bitcount Grid Single

Weights and styles

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.

Axis	Tag	Range	In the library
Slant	slnt	-8 to 0	16 families
Weight	wght	100 to 900	545 families
Cursive	CRSV	0 to 1	axis page
Element Shape	ELSH	0 to 100	8 families
Element Expansion	ELXP	0 to 100	6 families

Scripts2 subsets · families sharing each

Latin1,843
Latin Extended1,525

Inside the file

In the measured file: 1,754 glyphs and 396 mapped Unicode characters; 16 OpenType feature tags.

Declared features: capitals to small capitals, old-style figures, standard ligatures, contextual alternates, slashed zero and seven stylistic sets.

Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em

Bitcount Grid Singleequal x-height, same width Bitcount Prop Singleequal x-height, narrower Bitcountequal x-height, same width Bitcount Grid Doubleequal x-height, same width Bitcount Prop Doubleequal x-height, narrower Pixelify Sansshorter x-height, narrower

Outside the display class

Sarpanchshorter x-height, narrower Courier Primeshorter x-height, same width Anonymous Proshorter x-height, narrower

Rank every family against Bitcount Single

Same designer

Petr van Blokland is credited on 5 other families in the library, from Bitcount (2025) to Bitcount Prop Single (2025); the closest of them in x-height and width is Bitcount.