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Cactus Classical Serif

Of the 1,899 families measured here, Cactus Classical Serif has the largest glyph set. It carries true small capitals, a feature present in 179 of the 1,899 families.

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

Measure, per 1,000 em	Cactus Classical Serif	Median of 354 serifs
Ascender (top of d)	742	747
Cap height (top of H)	672	700
x-height (top of x)	474	482
Descender (foot of p)	−241	−233
x-height ÷ cap height	0.70	0.70
Average lowercase width	509	514
Ink coverage, a–z	36.0%	41.5%

Where it sitsEvery serif family is a dot

X-height across the 336 serifs with ascenders

302600

Just below: Uchen, Gilda Display; just above: Source Serif 4, Castoro

Average lowercase width across the 354 serifs

2751,028

Just below: Playfair Display, Jacques Francois; just above: Libre Bodoni, Fjord One

Weights and styles

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

Scripts5 subsets · families sharing each

Inside the file

In the measured file: 58,064 Unicode characters are mapped.

Declared features: capitals to small capitals, old-style figures, fractions, superscripts, subscripts, ordinals, standard ligatures, discretionary ligatures and three stylistic sets.

Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em

Quattrocentoshorter x-height, wider Brygada 1918shorter x-height, wider Spectralshorter x-height, narrower Spectral SCshorter x-height, narrower Inria Seriftaller x-height, wider Marcellustaller x-height, narrower

Outside the serif class

Cantarelltaller x-height, wider Quattrocento Sansshorter x-height, narrower Elms Sanstaller x-height, wider

Rank every family against Cactus Classical Serif

Same designer

Moonlit Owen is also credited on Chocolate Classical Sans and UoqMunThenKhung.