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Explora

Explora is one of only five families in the library that cover Cherokee. Among the 297 handwriting faces, it has the third-lightest regular-weight lowercase.

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

Measure, per 1,000 em	Explora	Median of 297 handwriting faces
Ascender (top of d)	532	720
Cap height (top of H)	604	733
x-height (top of x)	348	445
Descender (foot of p)	−284	−326
x-height ÷ cap height	0.58	0.60
Average lowercase width	254	418
Ink coverage, a–z	17.6%	44.3%

Where it sitsEvery handwriting family is a dot

X-height across the 287 handwriting faces with ascenders

151669

Just below: Grape Nuts, Grechen Fuemen; just above: Damion, Parisienne

Average lowercase width across the 297 handwriting faces

211720

Just below: Puppies Play, Waterfall; just above: Qwitcher Grypen, Mr De Haviland

Weights and styles

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

Scripts4 subsets · families sharing each

Inside the file

In the measured file: 854 glyphs and 778 mapped Unicode characters; 21 OpenType feature tags.

Declared features: old-style figures, lining figures, fractions, superscripts, ordinals, standard ligatures, discretionary ligatures, stylistic alternates, case-sensitive forms and four stylistic sets.

Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em

Imperial Scripttaller x-height, wider Gwendolynshorter x-height, wider Waterfallshorter x-height, narrower Island Momentsshorter x-height, wider Updocktaller x-height, wider Ephesisshorter x-height, wider

Outside the handwriting class

Bhavukataller x-height, wider Sirivennelataller x-height, wider Darker Grotesquetaller x-height, wider

Rank every family against Explora

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 Cherish.