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Lexend

The library lists Lexend together with eight more families that share a designer with it and either its name or its measurements. It sets a wider lowercase than 86% of the 732 sans serifs.

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

Measure, per 1,000 em	Lexend	Median of 732 sans serifs
Ascender (top of d)	740	740
Cap height (top of H)	700	702
x-height (top of x)	525	519
Descender (foot of p)	−220	−213
x-height ÷ cap height	0.75	0.70
Average lowercase width	549	522
Ink coverage, a–z	46.7%	40.2%

Versions and companionsA shared designer and a shared name or matching measurements

Version	Compared with Lexend	Added
Lexend Deca	matching measurements	2019
Lexend Exa	lowercase wider by 140	2019
Lexend Giga	lowercase wider by 196	2019
Lexend Mega	lowercase wider by 224	2019
Lexend Peta	lowercase wider by 252	2019
Lexend Tera	lowercase wider by 280	2019
Lexend Zetta	lowercase wider by 350	2019
Readex Pro	adds Arabic	2021

Where it sitsEvery sans serif family is a dot

X-height across the 716 sans serifs with ascenders

294672

Just below: Mona Sans, Fragment Mono; just above: Gothic A1, Montserrat; level with: Asap, Asap Condensed, Lexend Deca

Average lowercase width across the 732 sans serifs

1831,319

Just below: Valley Sans, Tomorrow; just above: Proza Libre, Tsukimi Rounded; level with: Lexend Deca

Weights and styles

One variable file per style covers every weight from 100 to 900, with no italic; nine of the nine standard steps fall inside that range.

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: 850 glyphs and 685 mapped Unicode characters; 18 OpenType feature tags.

Declared features: fractions, superscripts, subscripts, ordinals, standard ligatures, discretionary ligatures, slashed zero, case-sensitive forms and one stylistic set.

Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em

Pliantshorter x-height, narrower Aldrichshorter x-height, wider Cascadia Codeshorter x-height, wider Cascadia Monoshorter x-height, wider

Outside the sans serif class

Roboto Slabtaller x-height, narrower Hanumantaller x-height, narrower Battambangtaller x-height, narrower

Rank every family against Lexend

Same designer

Thomas Jockin is also credited on Amatic SC, Overpass and Overpass Mono. Santiago Orozco is credited on 10 other families in the library, from Josefin Sans (2010) to Belanosima (2023); the closest of them in x-height and width is Antic Didone.