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Jost

Jost is one of 91 families offering all nine weights from Thin to Black, each with an italic. It has a shorter x-height than 93% of the 716 sans serifs with ascenders. It sets a narrower lowercase than 80% of the 732 sans serifs.

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

Measure, per 1,000 em	Jost	Median of 732 sans serifs
Ascender (top of d)	780	740
Cap height (top of H)	700	702
x-height (top of x)	460	519
Descender (foot of p)	−220	−213
x-height ÷ cap height	0.66	0.70
Average lowercase width	466	522
Ink coverage, a–z	45.7%	40.2%

Where it sitsEvery sans serif family is a dot

X-height across the 716 sans serifs with ascenders

294672

Just below: Alata, Molengo; just above: Alegreya Sans, Nuosu SIL; level with: Ancizar Sans, Federo, Lalezar

Average lowercase width across the 732 sans serifs

1831,319

Just below: Saira Semi Condensed, Winky Sans; just above: Athiti, Encode Sans Semi Condensed; level with: Ruluko

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

Scripts3 subsets · families sharing each

Inside the file

In the measured file: 535 glyphs and 524 mapped Unicode characters; three OpenType feature tags.

Declared features: tabular figures and one stylistic set.

Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em

Cabintaller x-height, wider Rosariotaller x-height, wider Federoequal x-height, narrower Teachersshorter x-height, wider Average Sansshorter x-height, narrower Nuosu SILtaller x-height, wider

Outside the sans serif class

Polytaller x-height, wider Gelasiotaller x-height, wider Enriquetataller x-height, wider

Rank every family against Jost

Same designer

Owen Earl is also credited on Bodoni Moda, Besley and Bodoni Moda SC.