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Holtwood One SC

Among the 354 serifs, Holtwood One SC has the second-widest lowercase and the fourth-darkest regular-weight lowercase. It has no ascenders or descenders on its lowercase keys: the d stands no taller than the x, as in 111 other families in the library.

Outlines drawn from the HoltwoodOneSC-Regular file. The d and p keys carry no ascender or descender in this design. The dashed line is the median height of the x among the families drawn this way.

Measure, per 1,000 em	Holtwood One SC	Median of 112 families without ascenders
Cap height (top of H)	750	701
Height of the x	688	671
Average width, a–z keys	820	536
Ink coverage, a–z keys	71.3%	42.0%

Where it sitsEvery serif family is a dot

Cap height across the 354 serifs

402858

Just below: Cantata One, Donegal One; just above: Wellfleet, Hepta Slab; level with: Aoboshi One, Besley, Bodoni Moda

Average width of the a–z keys across the 354 serifs

2751,028

Just below: Vast Shadow, BhuTuka Expanded One; just above: BioRhyme Expanded

Weights and styles

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

Scripts2 subsets · families sharing each

Latin1,843
Latin Extended1,525

Inside the file

In the measured file: 376 glyphs and 371 mapped Unicode characters; eleven OpenType feature tags.

Declared features: fractions, superscripts, ordinals, standard ligatures and case-sensitive forms.

Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em

Danfoshorter cap height, narrower Graduateequal cap height, narrower Playfair Display SCshorter cap height, narrower Castoro Titlingshorter cap height, narrower Vollkorn SCshorter cap height, narrower Cinzelshorter cap height, narrower

Outside the serif class

Bowlby One SCshorter cap height, narrower Rubik Mono Oneshorter cap height, wider Bungeeshorter cap height, narrower

Rank every family against Holtwood One SC

Same designer

Vernon Adams is credited on 57 other families in the library, from Nobile (2010) to Anton SC (2024); the closest of them in x-height and width is Monoton.