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Crimson Text

Crimson Text sets a narrower lowercase than 90% of the 354 serifs. Only 6% of today’s serifs were added to the library before it. It has a shorter x-height than 87% of the 336 serifs with ascenders.

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

Measure, per 1,000 em	Crimson Text	Median of 354 serifs
Ascender (top of d)	678	747
Cap height (top of H)	646	700
x-height (top of x)	424	482
Descender (foot of p)	−221	−233
x-height ÷ cap height	0.66	0.70
Average lowercase width	445	514
Ink coverage, a–z	41.1%	41.5%

Where it sitsEvery serif family is a dot

X-height across the 336 serifs with ascenders

302600

Just below: Buenard, Amiri; just above: Libre Caslon Display, OFL Sorts Mill Goudy TT

Average lowercase width across the 354 serifs

2751,028

Just below: Dai Banna SIL, Mirza; just above: IM Fell Double Pica, Port Lligat Slab

Weights and styles

Static files in three weights (Regular, SemiBold and Bold), with a matching italic; 6 font files in all.

Scripts3 subsets · families sharing each

Inside the file

In the measured file: 718 glyphs and 675 mapped Unicode characters; 15 OpenType feature tags.

Declared features: fractions, superscripts, subscripts, standard ligatures, discretionary ligatures, slashed zero and case-sensitive forms.

Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em

Amirishorter x-height, wider Amiri Quranshorter x-height, wider Libertinus Seriftaller x-height, wider Tai Heritage Protaller x-height, wider Fenixtaller x-height, wider Tinostaller x-height, wider

Outside the serif class

Afacadshorter x-height, wider Afacad Fluxshorter x-height, wider Libertinus Mathtaller x-height, wider

Rank every family against Crimson Text

Same designer

Sebastian Kosch is also credited on Amiri and Amiri Quran.