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DM Sans

DM Sans is one of 91 families offering all nine weights from Thin to Black, each with an italic. At its regular weight it looks lighter on the page than 68% of the sans serifs, by ink coverage. It has a taller x-height than 57% of the 716 sans serifs with ascenders.

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

Measure, per 1,000 em	DM Sans	Median of 732 sans serifs
Ascender (top of d)	720	740
Cap height (top of H)	700	702
x-height (top of x)	526	519
Descender (foot of p)	−220	−213
x-height ÷ cap height	0.75	0.70
Average lowercase width	527	522
Ink coverage, a–z	40.0%	40.2%

Where it sitsEvery sans serif family is a dot

X-height across the 716 sans serifs with ascenders

294672

Just below: Montserrat, Montserrat Underline; just above: Chiron Hei HK, Kosugi; level with: Archivo, Archivo Narrow, Fira Sans Condensed

Average lowercase width across the 732 sans serifs

1831,319

Just below: Mona Sans, Tauri; just above: Chiron Hei HK, Onest

Weights and styles

One variable file per style covers every weight from 100 to 1000.

Axis	Tag	Range	In the library
Optical size	opsz	9 to 40	29 families
Weight	wght	100 to 1000	545 families

Scripts2 subsets · families sharing each

Latin1,843
Latin Extended1,525

Inside the file

In the measured file: 486 glyphs and 403 mapped Unicode characters; 22 OpenType feature tags.

Declared features: fractions, superscripts, ordinals, standard ligatures, contextual alternates, case-sensitive forms and eight stylistic sets.

Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em

AR One Sansshorter x-height, wider ABeeZeetaller x-height, wider Miranda Sansshorter x-height, narrower K2Dshorter x-height, narrower Mondashorter x-height, wider Varela Roundshorter x-height, wider

Outside the sans serif class

Arimashorter x-height, narrower Noto Serif Todhrishorter x-height, wider Oxaniumshorter x-height, narrower

Rank every family against DM Sans

Same designer

Colophon Foundry is credited on 4 other families in the library, from Space Mono (2016) to DM Mono (2020); the closest of them in x-height and width is DM Serif Display.