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Dorsa

Of the 1,899 families measured here, Dorsa has the narrowest lowercase. Its regular file holds 211 glyphs, against a median of 686 for the sans serifs.

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

Measure, per 1,000 em	Dorsa	Median of 732 sans serifs
Ascender (top of d)	750	740
Cap height (top of H)	700	702
x-height (top of x)	500	519
Descender (foot of p)	−200	−213
x-height ÷ cap height	0.71	0.70
Average lowercase width	183	522
Ink coverage, a–z	36.9%	40.2%

Where it sitsEvery sans serif family is a dot

X-height across the 716 sans serifs with ascenders

294672

Just below: Akatab, Pontano Sans; just above: Mako, Sour Gummy; level with: Abel, Advent Pro, Akt

Average lowercase width across the 732 sans serifs

1831,319

Just above: Six Caps, Chathura

Weights and styles

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

Scripts1 subset · families sharing each

Latin1,843

Inside the file

In the measured file: 210 Unicode characters are mapped.

Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em

BenchNineshorter x-height, wider Georamataller x-height, wider Saira Extra Condensedtaller x-height, wider Economicataller x-height, wider Wire Onetaller x-height, wider Sofia Sans Extra Condensedshorter x-height, wider

Outside the sans serif class

Tulpen Oneshorter x-height, wider Zen Loopshorter x-height, wider Imbuetaller x-height, wider

Rank every family against Dorsa

Same designer

Santiago Orozco is credited on 18 other families in the library, from Josefin Sans (2010) to Belanosima (2023); the closest of them in x-height and width is Italiana.