Dancing Script
Only 10% of today’s handwriting faces were added to the library before Dancing Script. It has a shorter x-height than 80% of the 287 handwriting faces with ascenders. It offers four weights which is more styles than 76% of the handwriting faces have.
| Measure, per 1,000 em | Dancing Script | Median of 297 handwriting faces |
|---|---|---|
| Ascender (top of d) | 720 | 720 |
| Cap height (top of H) | 720 | 733 |
| x-height (top of x) | 332 | 445 |
| Descender (foot of p) | −280 | −326 |
| x-height ÷ cap height | 0.46 | 0.60 |
| Average lowercase width | 389 | 418 |
| Ink coverage, a–z | 49.0% | 44.3% |
Where it sitsEvery handwriting family is a dot
X-height across the 287 handwriting faces with ascenders
Just below: Clicker Script, League Script; just above: Swanky and Moo Moo, Pinyon Script
Average lowercase width across the 297 handwriting faces
Just below: Pinyon Script, Shadows Into Light; just above: Liu Jian Mao Cao, Redressed
Weights and styles
One variable file per style covers every weight from 400 to 700.
| Axis | Tag | Range | In the library |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weight | wght | 400 to 700 | 545 families |
Scripts3 subsets · families sharing each
- Latin1,843
- Latin Extended1,525
- Vietnamese532
Inside the file
In the measured file: 643 glyphs and 559 mapped Unicode characters; 14 OpenType feature tags.
Declared features: fractions, superscripts, ordinals, standard ligatures, discretionary ligatures, stylistic alternates and case-sensitive forms.
Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em
Same designer
Impallari Type is credited on 32 other families in the library, from Lobster (2010) to Cabin (2020); the closest of them in x-height and width is Caveat.
File: ofl/dancingscript, google/fonts 9862abc · font software © its authors, SIL Open Font License 1.1 · method