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Dongle

Of the 1,899 families measured here, Dongle has the fourth-shortest capitals. Among the 716 sans serifs, it has the second-shortest x-height and the third-shortest ascenders.

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

Measure, per 1,000 em	Dongle	Median of 732 sans serifs
Ascender (top of d)	435	740
Cap height (top of H)	405	702
x-height (top of x)	295	519
Descender (foot of p)	−145	−213
x-height ÷ cap height	0.73	0.70
Average lowercase width	318	522
Ink coverage, a–z	53.5%	40.2%

Where it sitsEvery sans serif family is a dot

X-height across the 716 sans serifs with ascenders

294672

Just below: Chathura; just above: Qahiri, Gidugu

Average lowercase width across the 732 sans serifs

1831,319

Just below: Qahiri, Sofia Sans Extra Condensed; just above: BenchNine, Gurajada

Weights and styles

Static files in three weights (Light, Regular and Bold), with no italic; 3 font files in all.

Scripts4 subsets · families sharing each

Inside the file

In the measured file: 12,550 glyphs and 12,494 mapped Unicode characters; 18 OpenType feature tags.

Declared features: tabular figures, proportional figures, fractions, superscripts, subscripts, ordinals, standard ligatures and case-sensitive forms.

Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em

Gidugutaller x-height, wider Gurajadataller x-height, wider Dhurjatitaller x-height, wider Tenali Ramakrishnataller x-height, wider Chathurashorter x-height, narrower NATStaller x-height, wider

Outside the sans serif class

Cute Fonttaller x-height, narrower Ramsinataller x-height, wider Peddanataller x-height, wider

Rank every family against Dongle

Same designer

Yanghee Ryu is also credited on Gowun Batang and Gowun Dodum.