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Lekton

Among the 44 monospaced families, Lekton has the third-lightest regular-weight lowercase. It is one of the 60 families dated 2010, the earliest year in the repository’s records of when families were added. It carries true small capitals, a feature present in 179 of the 1,899 families.

Outlines drawn from the Lekton-Regular file at weight 400. The dashed line is the median x-height of the monospaced families.

Measure, per 1,000 em	Lekton	Median of 44 monospaced families
Ascender (top of d)	664	730
Cap height (top of H)	655	699
x-height (top of x)	475	517
Descender (foot of p)	−192	−200
x-height ÷ cap height	0.72	0.70
Average lowercase width	500	600
Ink coverage, a–z	28.4%	36.0%

Where it sitsEvery monospace family is a dot

X-height across the 42 monospaced families with ascenders

378748

Just below: Sometype Mono, Intel One Mono; just above: Libertinus Mono, Sono

Average lowercase width across the 44 monospaced families

4001,000

Just below: VT323; just above: Iosevka Charon, Share Tech Mono; level with: Datatype, Iosevka Charon Mono, LXGW WenKai Mono TC

Weights and styles

Static files in two weights (Regular and Bold), with a matching italic; 3 font files in all.

Scripts2 subsets · families sharing each

Latin1,843
Latin Extended1,525

Inside the file

In the measured file: 950 glyphs and 352 mapped Unicode characters; 16 OpenType feature tags.

Declared features: old-style figures, standard ligatures, discretionary ligatures, contextual alternates, stylistic alternates, swashes and eight stylistic sets.

Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em

Anonymous Proshorter x-height, wider LXGW WenKai Mono TCtaller x-height, same width Syne Monotaller x-height, wider Sometype Monoshorter x-height, wider Share Tech Monotaller x-height, wider Ubuntu Monoshorter x-height, same width

Outside the monospace class

Gideon Romantaller x-height, wider Scope Onetaller x-height, wider Jurashorter x-height, wider

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