Lobster
Lobster is one of the 60 families dated 2010, the earliest year in the repository’s records of when families were added. Its regular file holds 1,174 glyphs, 2.8 times the median of the display faces (423). It lists five script subsets, more than 89% of the display faces.
| Measure, per 1,000 em | Lobster | Median of 472 display faces |
|---|---|---|
| Ascender (top of d) | 700 | 726 |
| Cap height (top of H) | 750 | 701 |
| x-height (top of x) | 557 | 507 |
| Descender (foot of p) | −250 | −208 |
| x-height ÷ cap height | 0.74 | 0.70 |
| Average lowercase width | 443 | 506 |
| Ink coverage, a–z | 61.8% | 48.7% |
Versions and companionsA shared designer and a shared name or matching measurements
| Version | Compared with Lobster | Added |
|---|---|---|
| Lobster Two | lowercase narrower by 35 | 2011 |
Where it sitsEvery display family is a dot
X-height across the 406 display faces with ascenders
Just below: Nova Cut, Nova Flat; just above: Diplomata, Poetsen One; level with: Galada, Pushster, Train One
Average lowercase width across the 472 display faces
Just below: Moo Lah Lah, Sail; just above: Koulen, Staatliches; level with: Galada, Pushster
Weights and styles
A single static weight, Regular (400), with no italic.
ScriptsFamilies sharing each subset
- Latin1,843
- Latin Extended1,525
- Vietnamese532
- Cyrillic306
- Cyrillic Extended243
Inside the file
In the measured file: 828 Unicode characters are mapped.
Declared features: fractions, superscripts, subscripts, ordinals, standard ligatures, discretionary ligatures, stylistic alternates and case-sensitive forms.
Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em
Outside the display class
Same designer
Impallari Type is credited on 31 other families in the library, from Cabin Sketch (2011) to Cabin (2020); the closest of them in x-height and width is Encode Sans Condensed.
File: ofl/lobster, google/fonts 9862abc · font software © its authors, SIL Open Font License 1.1 · method