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Chathura

Of the 1,899 families measured here, Chathura has the shortest ascenders and the third-shortest capitals. Among the 716 sans serifs, it has the shortest x-height and the second-shallowest descenders.

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

Measure, per 1,000 em	Chathura	Median of 732 sans serifs
Ascender (top of d)	405	740
Cap height (top of H)	404	702
x-height (top of x)	294	519
Descender (foot of p)	−89	−213
x-height ÷ cap height	0.73	0.70
Average lowercase width	234	522
Ink coverage, a–z	30.0%	40.2%

Where it sitsEvery sans serif family is a dot

X-height across the 716 sans serifs with ascenders

294672

Just above: Dongle, Qahiri

Average lowercase width across the 732 sans serifs

1831,319

Just below: Six Caps, Dorsa; just above: Wire One, Georama

Weights and styles

Static files in five weights (Thin, Light, Regular, Bold and ExtraBold), with no italic; 5 font files in all.

Scripts2 subsets · families sharing each

Latin1,843
Telugu27

Inside the file

In the measured file: 1,252 glyphs and 222 mapped Unicode characters; six OpenType feature tags.

Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em

Dongletaller x-height, wider Tenali Ramakrishnataller x-height, wider Sirivennelataller x-height, wider Gidugutaller x-height, wider Genostaller x-height, wider Gurajadataller x-height, wider

Outside the sans serif class

Cute Fonttaller x-height, wider Peddanataller x-height, wider Carameltaller x-height, wider

Rank every family against Chathura

Same designer

Appaji Ambarisha Darbha is credited on 7 other families in the library, from Peddana (2014) to Sirivennela (2025); the closest of them in x-height and width is Peddana.