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Cabin

At its regular weight Cabin looks darker on the page than 84% of the sans serifs, by ink coverage. It has a shorter x-height than 80% of the 716 sans serifs with ascenders. It sets a narrower lowercase than 76% of the 732 sans serifs.

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

Measure, per 1,000 em	Cabin	Median of 732 sans serifs
Ascender (top of d)	750	740
Cap height (top of H)	700	702
x-height (top of x)	490	519
Descender (foot of p)	−242	−213
x-height ÷ cap height	0.70	0.70
Average lowercase width	477	522
Ink coverage, a–z	47.1%	40.2%

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

Version	Compared with Cabin	Added
Cabin Condensed	lowercase narrower by 58; static files only	2011

Where it sitsEvery sans serif family is a dot

X-height across the 716 sans serifs with ascenders

294672

Just below: Estedad, Space Grotesk; just above: Geom, BenchNine; level with: Cabin Condensed, Fahkwang, Gemunu Libre

Average lowercase width across the 732 sans serifs

1831,319

Just below: Italiana, Gidole; just above: El Messiri, Philosopher

Weights and styles

One variable file per style covers every weight from 400 to 700, with a matching italic; four of the nine standard steps fall inside that range.

Axis	Tag	Range	In the library
Width	wdth	75 to 100	99 families
Weight	wght	400 to 700	545 families

Scripts3 subsets · families sharing each

Inside the file

In the measured file: 747 glyphs and 668 mapped Unicode characters; 15 OpenType feature tags.

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

Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em

Sarabuntaller x-height, wider Signika Negativetaller x-height, wider Signikataller x-height, wider Saralataller x-height, wider Electrolizetaller x-height, wider Kanchenjungataller x-height, wider

Outside the sans serif class

Asulshorter x-height, wider Sniglettaller x-height, wider Castoroshorter x-height, wider

Rank every family against Cabin

Same designer

Impallari Type is credited on 31 other families in the library, from Lobster (2010) to Encode Sans SC (2020); the closest of them in x-height and width is New Rocker. Rodrigo Fuenzalida is credited on 11 other families in the library, from Titan One (2012) to Libre Caslon Condensed (2026); the closest of them in x-height and width is Outfit.