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Cutive

Among the 354 serifs, Cutive has the second-tallest capitals and the fourth-tallest ascenders. It has a taller x-height than 98% of the 336 serifs with ascenders.

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

Measure, per 1,000 em	Cutive	Median of 354 serifs
Ascender (top of d)	849	747
Cap height (top of H)	837	700
x-height (top of x)	553	482
Descender (foot of p)	−281	−233
x-height ÷ cap height	0.66	0.70
Average lowercase width	670	514
Ink coverage, a–z	45.7%	41.5%

Where it sitsEvery serif family is a dot

X-height across the 336 serifs with ascenders

302600

Just below: Yuji Mai, Martel; just above: Wellfleet, Merriweather

Average lowercase width across the 354 serifs

2751,028

Just below: Graduate, Bevan; just above: Castoro Titling, Arbutus

Weights and styles

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

Scripts2 subsets · families sharing each

Latin1,843
Latin Extended1,525

Inside the file

In the measured file: 449 glyphs and 429 mapped Unicode characters; 14 OpenType feature tags.

Declared features: fractions, superscripts, ordinals, standard ligatures, discretionary ligatures and case-sensitive forms.

Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em

Inknut Antiquashorter x-height, narrower Stokeshorter x-height, narrower Libre Baskervilleshorter x-height, narrower Quandotaller x-height, narrower Adaminashorter x-height, narrower Headland Onetaller x-height, narrower

Outside the serif class

Autour Onetaller x-height, wider Metamorphoustaller x-height, narrower Capriolashorter x-height, narrower

Rank every family against Cutive

Same designer

Vernon Adams is credited on 57 other families in the library, from Nobile (2010) to Anton SC (2024); the closest of them in x-height and width is Bevan.