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Kolker Brush

Of the 1,899 families measured here, Kolker Brush has the second-shortest ascenders and the fifth-shortest x-height. Among the 297 handwriting faces, it has the fourth-narrowest lowercase.

Outlines drawn from the KolkerBrush-Regular file at weight 400. The dashed line is the median x-height of the handwriting faces.

Measure, per 1,000 em	Kolker Brush	Median of 297 handwriting faces
Ascender (top of d)	406	720
Cap height (top of H)	565	733
x-height (top of x)	200	445
Descender (foot of p)	−177	−326
x-height ÷ cap height	0.35	0.60
Average lowercase width	224	418
Ink coverage, a–z	56.9%	44.3%

Where it sitsEvery handwriting family is a dot

X-height across the 287 handwriting faces with ascenders

151669

Just below: Passions Conflict, Miss Fajardose; just above: Mr De Haviland, Qwitcher Grypen

Average lowercase width across the 297 handwriting faces

211720

Just below: Stalemate, Sassy Frass; just above: Petemoss, Lovers Quarrel

Weights and styles

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

Scripts3 subsets · families sharing each

Inside the file

In the measured file: 642 glyphs and 589 mapped Unicode characters; 15 OpenType feature tags.

Declared features: old-style figures, lining figures, fractions, superscripts, ordinals, standard ligatures, stylistic alternates, case-sensitive forms and one stylistic set.

Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em

Passions Conflictshorter x-height, wider Lovers Quarreltaller x-height, wider Qwitcher Grypentaller x-height, wider Carameltaller x-height, wider Allisontaller x-height, wider Puppies Playtaller x-height, wider

Outside the handwriting class

Dongletaller x-height, wider Gurajadataller x-height, wider Cute Fonttaller x-height, wider

Rank every family against Kolker Brush

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 Passions Conflict.