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Estonia

Among the 297 handwriting faces, Estonia has the second-shortest capitals. It carries true small capitals, a feature present in 179 of the 1,899 families.

Outlines drawn from the Estonia-Regular file at weight 400. The dashed line is the median x-height of the handwriting faces.

Measure, per 1,000 em	Estonia	Median of 297 handwriting faces
Ascender (top of d)	663	720
Cap height (top of H)	447	733
x-height (top of x)	302	445
Descender (foot of p)	−338	−326
x-height ÷ cap height	0.68	0.60
Average lowercase width	250	418
Ink coverage, a–z	34.0%	44.3%

Where it sitsEvery handwriting family is a dot

X-height across the 287 handwriting faces with ascenders

151669

Just below: Allura, Island Moments; just above: Caramel, Slackside One

Average lowercase width across the 297 handwriting faces

211720

Just below: Inspiration, Allison; just above: Waterfall, Puppies Play

Weights and styles

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

Scripts3 subsets · families sharing each

Inside the file

In the measured file: 1,717 glyphs and 597 mapped Unicode characters; 26 OpenType feature tags.

Declared features: capitals to small capitals, fractions, superscripts, ordinals, standard ligatures, discretionary ligatures, stylistic alternates, swashes, case-sensitive forms and seven stylistic sets.

Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em

Island Momentsshorter x-height, wider Grey Qotaller x-height, wider Corinthiashorter x-height, wider Shalimarshorter x-height, narrower Kapakanashorter x-height, wider Italiannoshorter x-height, wider

Outside the handwriting class

Lancelottaller x-height, wider Icelandtaller x-height, wider Parastootaller x-height, wider

Rank every family against Estonia

Same designer

Robert Leuschke is credited on 88 other families in the library, from Bilbo (2011) to Alumni Sans SC (2024); the closest of them in x-height and width is Shalimar.