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Genos

Genos is one of only five families in the library that cover Cherokee. Among the 716 sans serifs, it has the second-largest x-height relative to its capitals and the fifth-shortest capitals. It is one of 91 families offering all nine weights from Thin to Black, each with an italic.

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

Measure, per 1,000 em	Genos	Median of 732 sans serifs
Ascender (top of d)	505	740
Cap height (top of H)	460	702
x-height (top of x)	400	519
Descender (foot of p)	−107	−213
x-height ÷ cap height	0.87	0.70
Average lowercase width	431	522
Ink coverage, a–z	36.5%	40.2%

Where it sitsEvery sans serif family is a dot

X-height across the 716 sans serifs with ascenders

294672

Just below: Hubballi, Beiruti; just above: Darker Grotesque, League Spartan; level with: Tac One

Average lowercase width across the 732 sans serifs

1831,319

Just below: Encode Sans Condensed, NTR; just above: Tac One, Zen Kurenaido

Weights and styles

One variable file per style covers every weight from 100 to 900.

Axis	Tag	Range	In the library
Weight	wght	100 to 900	545 families

Scripts4 subsets · families sharing each

Inside the file

In the measured file: 816 glyphs and 698 mapped Unicode characters; 22 OpenType feature tags.

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

Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em

Tenali Ramakrishnashorter x-height, narrower NATSshorter x-height, narrower Sirivennelashorter x-height, narrower Hubballishorter x-height, wider Darker Grotesquetaller x-height, narrower Harmattanshorter x-height, narrower

Outside the sans serif class

Suravaramshorter x-height, narrower Long Cangtaller x-height, narrower Mirzataller x-height, wider

Rank every family against Genos

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 Neonderthaw.