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Boldonse

Of the 1,899 families measured here, Boldonse has the tallest x-height, the third-tallest ascenders and the third-tallest capitals. It is a recent addition: 97% of today’s display faces were in the library before it.

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

Measure, per 1,000 em	Boldonse	Median of 472 display faces
Ascender (top of d)	1,200	726
Cap height (top of H)	1,190	701
x-height (top of x)	870	507
Descender (foot of p)	−300	−208
x-height ÷ cap height	0.73	0.70
Average lowercase width	671	506
Ink coverage, a–z	71.7%	48.7%

Where it sitsEvery display family is a dot

X-height across the 406 display faces with ascenders

283870

Just below: Anton, Anton SC

Average lowercase width across the 472 display faces

2161,293

Just below: Dela Gothic One, Codystar; just above: Angkor, Moul

Weights and styles

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

Scripts2 subsets · families sharing each

Latin1,843
Latin Extended1,525

Inside the file

In the measured file: 429 glyphs and 399 mapped Unicode characters; 15 OpenType feature tags.

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

Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em

Paprikashorter x-height, narrower Antonshorter x-height, narrower Anton SCshorter x-height, narrower Henny Pennyshorter x-height, narrower Antonioshorter x-height, narrower Kumar Oneshorter x-height, wider

Outside the display class

Momo Signatureshorter x-height, narrower Beth Ellenshorter x-height, narrower Playwrite COshorter x-height, narrower

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