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Lato

Lato is one of the 60 families dated 2010, the earliest year in the repository’s records of when families were added. It is one of 91 families offering all nine weights from Thin to Black, each with an italic. Its regular file holds 3,023 glyphs, 4.4 times the median of the sans serifs (686).

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

Measure, per 1,000 em	Lato	Median of 732 sans serifs
Ascender (top of d)	736	740
Cap height (top of H)	716	702
x-height (top of x)	506	519
Descender (foot of p)	−172	−213
x-height ÷ cap height	0.71	0.70
Average lowercase width	493	522
Ink coverage, a–z	41.7%	40.2%

Where it sitsEvery sans serif family is a dot

X-height across the 716 sans serifs with ascenders

294672

Just below: Barlow, Barlow Condensed; just above: Kite One, Nevermind

Average lowercase width across the 732 sans serifs

1831,319

Just below: Alatsi, Murecho; just above: Sulphur Point, Snippet

Weights and styles

Static files from Thin to Black.

Scripts7 subsets · families sharing each

Inside the file

In the measured file: 2,164 Unicode characters are mapped.

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

Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em

Pontano Sansshorter x-height, narrower Litertaller x-height, wider Special Gothicshorter x-height, narrower Istok Webtaller x-height, narrower Public Sanstaller x-height, wider Commissionershorter x-height, wider

Outside the sans serif class

PT Serifshorter x-height, wider Aleoequal x-height, wider Codataller x-height, wider

Rank every family against Lato

Same designer

Łukasz Dziedzic is also credited on Carlito.