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Cormorant

The library lists Cormorant together with five more families that share a designer with it and either its name or its measurements. Among the 354 serifs, it has the fourth-largest number of stylistic sets. It carries true small capitals, a feature present in 179 of the 1,899 families.

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

Measure, per 1,000 em	Cormorant	Median of 354 serifs
Ascender (top of d)	725	747
Cap height (top of H)	625	700
x-height (top of x)	386	482
Descender (foot of p)	−275	−233
x-height ÷ cap height	0.62	0.70
Average lowercase width	440	514
Ink coverage, a–z	32.6%	41.5%

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

Version	Compared with Cormorant	Added
Cormorant Garamond	matching measurements	2017
Cormorant Infant	matching measurements	2017
Cormorant SC	no ascenders (capital forms on the lowercase keys); lowercase wider by 73; static files only	2017
Cormorant Unicase	no ascenders (capital forms on the lowercase keys); lowercase wider by 75; static files only	2017
Cormorant Upright	lowercase narrower by 18; static files only	2017

Where it sitsEvery serif family is a dot

X-height across the 336 serifs with ascenders

302600

Just below: Bentham, Fanwood Text; just above: Ramaraja, Linden Hill; level with: Cormorant Garamond, Cormorant Infant

Average lowercase width across the 354 serifs

2751,028

Just below: Sree Krushnadevaraya, Fanwood Text; just above: Arapey, Cormorant Garamond

Weights and styles

One variable file per style covers every weight from 300 to 700, with a matching italic; five of the nine standard steps fall inside that range.

Axis	Tag	Range	In the library
Weight	wght	300 to 700	545 families

Scripts5 subsets · families sharing each

Inside the file

In the measured file: 3,237 glyphs and 972 mapped Unicode characters; 42 OpenType feature tags.

Declared features: capitals to small capitals, old-style figures, lining figures, tabular figures, fractions, superscripts, subscripts, ordinals, standard ligatures, discretionary ligatures, contextual alternates, slashed zero and case-sensitive forms.

Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em

EB Garamondtaller x-height, narrower Bennetaller x-height, narrower Ibarra Real Novataller x-height, wider

Outside the serif class

Ysabeautaller x-height, wider Ysabeau Officetaller x-height, wider Ysabeau Infanttaller x-height, wider

Rank every family against Cormorant

Same designer

Christian Thalmann is credited on 4 other families in the library, from Ysabeau (2023) to Ysabeau SC (2023); the closest of them in x-height and width is Ysabeau.