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Danfo

Danfo’s Element Shape axis (ELSH) appears in only seven other families. Among the 354 serifs, it has the third-darkest regular-weight lowercase. It has no ascenders or descenders on its lowercase keys: the d stands no taller than the x, as in 111 other families in the library.

Outlines drawn from the Danfo file. The d and p keys carry no ascender or descender in this design. The dashed line is the median height of the x among the families drawn this way.

Measure, per 1,000 em	Danfo	Median of 112 families without ascenders
Cap height (top of H)	716	701
Height of the x	716	671
Average width, a–z keys	640	536
Ink coverage, a–z keys	74.8%	42.0%

Where it sitsEvery serif family is a dot

Cap height across the 354 serifs

402858

Just below: Noto Naskh Arabic, Noto Nastaliq Urdu; just above: Aleo, Chiron Sung HK

Average width of the a–z keys across the 354 serifs

2751,028

Just below: Cinzel, Stoke; just above: Peralta, Stint Ultra Expanded

Weights and styles

Variable along other axes but drawn in a single weight (Regular), with no italic.

Axis	Tag	Range	In the library
Element Shape	ELSH	0 to 100	axis page

Scripts3 subsets · families sharing each

Inside the file

In the measured file: 1,160 glyphs and 962 mapped Unicode characters; 23 OpenType feature tags.

Declared features: old-style figures, lining figures, tabular figures, proportional figures, fractions, superscripts, subscripts, ordinals, slashed zero, case-sensitive forms and three stylistic sets.

Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em

Holtwood One SCtaller cap height, wider Graduatetaller cap height, wider Playfair Display SCshorter cap height, narrower Castoro Titlingshorter cap height, wider Montenegrin Gothic Oneshorter cap height, narrower Marcellus SCshorter cap height, narrower

Outside the serif class

Luckiest Guyshorter cap height, narrower Bowlby One SCtaller cap height, wider Bungeetaller cap height, wider

Rank every family against Danfo

Same designer

Afrotype is also credited on Tac One. Seyi Olusanya is also credited on Tac One. Eyiyemi Adegbite is also credited on Tac One. David Udoh is also credited on Tac One. Mirko Velimirović is credited on 6 other families in the library, from Spline Sans (2021) to Jaro (2024); the closest of them in x-height and width is Spline Sans Mono.