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Kanit

Kanit is one of 91 families offering all nine weights from Thin to Black, each with an italic. It has a shorter x-height than 90% of the 716 sans serifs with ascenders. At its regular weight it looks darker on the page than 87% of the sans serifs, by ink coverage.

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

Measure, per 1,000 em	Kanit	Median of 732 sans serifs
Ascender (top of d)	674	740
Cap height (top of H)	644	702
x-height (top of x)	474	519
Descender (foot of p)	−216	−213
x-height ÷ cap height	0.74	0.70
Average lowercase width	520	522
Ink coverage, a–z	49.5%	40.2%

Where it sitsEvery sans serif family is a dot

X-height across the 716 sans serifs with ascenders

294672

Just below: Story Script, Jura; just above: Outfit, Pavanam; level with: Wendy One

Average lowercase width across the 732 sans serifs

1831,319

Just below: Gantari, Cal Sans; just above: Exo, Radio Canada; level with: Nanum Gothic

Weights and styles

Static files from Thin to Black.

Scripts4 subsets · families sharing each

Inside the file

In the measured file: 775 glyphs and 725 mapped Unicode characters; 13 OpenType feature tags.

Declared features: fractions, superscripts, subscripts, ordinals and standard ligatures.

Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em

Sour Gummytaller x-height, wider Mitrtaller x-height, wider Fredokataller x-height, narrower Basictaller x-height, narrower Changataller x-height, narrower Playtaller x-height, narrower

Outside the sans serif class

Priditaller x-height, wider Song Myungshorter x-height, narrower DM Serif Displaytaller x-height, narrower

Rank every family against Kanit

Same designer

Cadson Demak is credited on 25 other families in the library, from Itim (2015) to Anuphan (2023); the closest of them in x-height and width is Taviraj.