Fraunces
No other family in the library has Fraunces’s Softness axis (SOFT). It has four variable axes; 18 other families in the library have as many or more. It is one of 91 families offering all nine weights from Thin to Black, each with an italic.
| Measure, per 1,000 em | Fraunces | Median of 354 serifs |
|---|---|---|
| Ascender (top of d) | 738 | 747 |
| Cap height (top of H) | 700 | 700 |
| x-height (top of x) | 471 | 482 |
| Descender (foot of p) | −233 | −233 |
| x-height ÷ cap height | 0.67 | 0.70 |
| Average lowercase width | 539 | 514 |
| Ink coverage, a–z | 45.7% | 41.5% |
Where it sitsEvery serif family is a dot
X-height across the 336 serifs with ascenders
Just below: Redaction, Redaction 10; just above: BioRhyme, BioRhyme Expanded
Average lowercase width across the 354 serifs
Just below: IBM Plex Serif, Aoboshi One; just above: Libre Caslon Text, Antic Didone
Weights and styles
One variable file per style covers every weight from 100 to 900.
| Axis | Tag | Range | In the library |
|---|---|---|---|
| Optical size | opsz | 9 to 144 | 29 families |
| Weight | wght | 100 to 900 | 545 families |
| Softness | SOFT | 0 to 100 | axis page |
| Wonky | WONK | 0 to 1 | this family only |
Scripts3 subsets · families sharing each
- Latin1,843
- Latin Extended1,525
- Vietnamese532
Inside the file
In the measured file: 698 glyphs and 624 mapped Unicode characters; five OpenType feature tags.
Declared features: standard ligatures, case-sensitive forms and one stylistic set.
Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em
Outside the serif class
Same designer
Phaedra Charles is also credited on Caprasimo. Flavia Zimbardi is also credited on Caprasimo.
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