Bitter
Bitter is one of 91 families offering all nine weights from Thin to Black, each with an italic. It carries true small capitals, a feature present in 179 of the 1,899 families. Its regular file holds 1,542 glyphs, 2.2 times the median of the serifs (700).
| Measure, per 1,000 em | Bitter | Median of 354 serifs |
|---|---|---|
| Ascender (top of d) | 772 | 747 |
| Cap height (top of H) | 698 | 700 |
| x-height (top of x) | 532 | 482 |
| Descender (foot of p) | −230 | −233 |
| x-height ÷ cap height | 0.76 | 0.70 |
| Average lowercase width | 533 | 514 |
| Ink coverage, a–z | 39.1% | 41.5% |
Where it sitsEvery serif family is a dot
X-height across the 336 serifs with ascenders
Just below: Inknut Antiqua, Libre Baskerville; just above: Hepta Slab, Coustard
Average lowercase width across the 354 serifs
Just below: Bodoni Moda, Bodoni Moda SC; just above: Hedvig Letters Serif, Batang
Weights and styles
One variable file per style covers every weight from 100 to 900.
| Axis | Tag | Range | In the library |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weight | wght | 100 to 900 | 545 families |
Scripts5 subsets · families sharing each
- Latin1,843
- Latin Extended1,525
- Vietnamese532
- Cyrillic306
- Cyrillic Extended243
Inside the file
In the measured file: 977 Unicode characters are mapped.
Declared features: capitals to small capitals, old-style figures, lining figures, tabular figures, proportional figures, fractions, superscripts, subscripts, ordinals, standard ligatures, discretionary ligatures, contextual alternates, slashed zero, case-sensitive forms and one stylistic set.
Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em
Outside the serif class
Same designer
Sol Matas is credited on 4 other families in the library, from Montserrat (2011) to Montserrat Underline (2024); the closest of them in x-height and width is Kadwa.
File: ofl/bitter, google/fonts 9862abc · font software © its authors, SIL Open Font License 1.1 · method