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Lora

Lora lists seven script subsets, more than 96% of the serifs. Only 11% of today’s serifs were added to the library before it. It offers four weights, each with an italic, which is more styles than 75% of the serifs have.

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

Measure, per 1,000 em	Lora	Median of 354 serifs
Ascender (top of d)	755	747
Cap height (top of H)	700	700
x-height (top of x)	500	482
Descender (foot of p)	−255	−233
x-height ÷ cap height	0.71	0.70
Average lowercase width	524	514
Ink coverage, a–z	39.5%	41.5%

Where it sitsEvery serif family is a dot

X-height across the 336 serifs with ascenders

302600

Just below: Cantata One, Sura; just above: Jomolhari, Rhodium Libre; level with: Amethysta, Antic Didone, Antic Slab

Average lowercase width across the 354 serifs

2751,028

Just below: Scope One, Andada Pro; just above: Inria Serif, Rosarivo; level with: Copse

Weights and styles

One variable file per style covers every weight from 400 to 700.

Axis	Tag	Range	In the library
Weight	wght	400 to 700	545 families

ScriptsFamilies sharing each subset

Inside the file

In the measured file: 892 glyphs and 778 mapped Unicode characters; 15 OpenType feature tags.

Declared features: tabular figures, proportional figures, fractions, superscripts, ordinals, standard ligatures, contextual alternates and case-sensitive forms.

Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em

Amethystaequal x-height, wider Andada Proshorter x-height, narrower Alike Angulartaller x-height, narrower Kay Pho Dutaller x-height, narrower Marcellusequal x-height, narrower Lailataller x-height, narrower

Outside the serif class

Carmeequal x-height, narrower Urbanisttaller x-height, narrower Electrolizeequal x-height, narrower

Rank every family against Lora

Same designer

Cyreal is credited on 34 other families in the library, from Yanone Kaffeesatz (2010) to Rubik (2015); the closest of them in x-height and width is Mulish.