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Cardo

Cardo covers scripts that few others in the library reach: Gothic (two families), Old Italic (two families) and Runic (three families). Among the 354 serifs, it has the third-largest number of stylistic sets. It carries true small capitals, a feature present in 179 of the 1,899 families.

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

Measure, per 1,000 em	Cardo	Median of 354 serifs
Ascender (top of d)	803	747
Cap height (top of H)	688	700
x-height (top of x)	440	482
Descender (foot of p)	−303	−233
x-height ÷ cap height	0.64	0.70
Average lowercase width	482	514
Ink coverage, a–z	39.6%	41.5%

Where it sitsEvery serif family is a dot

X-height across the 336 serifs with ascenders

302600

Just below: Radley, Arapey; just above: Bona Nova, Bona Nova SC

Average lowercase width across the 354 serifs

2751,028

Just below: Bentham, Joan; just above: Lusitana, Piazzolla

Weights and styles

Static files in two weights (Regular and Bold), with a matching italic; 3 font files in all.

Scripts8 subsets · families sharing each

Inside the file

In the measured file: 3,845 glyphs and 3,830 mapped Unicode characters; 27 OpenType feature tags.

Declared features: old-style figures, proportional figures, superscripts, subscripts, standard ligatures, discretionary ligatures and stylistic alternates.

Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em

Joantaller x-height, narrower Fjord Onetaller x-height, wider Sedanshorter x-height, wider Sedan SCshorter x-height, wider Estebantaller x-height, wider Matetaller x-height, narrower

Outside the serif class

Macondotaller x-height, narrower Macondo Swash Capstaller x-height, narrower Simonettashorter x-height, narrower

Rank every family against Cardo