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M PLUS 1

The library lists M PLUS 1 together with five more families that share a designer with it and either its name or its measurements. Its regular file holds 6,966 glyphs, 10.2 times the median of the sans serifs (686).

Outlines drawn from the MPLUS1 file at weight 400. The dashed line is the median x-height of the sans serifs.

Measure, per 1,000 em	M PLUS 1	Median of 732 sans serifs
Ascender (top of d)	730	740
Cap height (top of H)	730	702
x-height (top of x)	520	519
Descender (foot of p)	−210	−213
x-height ÷ cap height	0.71	0.70
Average lowercase width	543	522
Ink coverage, a–z	36.9%	40.2%

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

Version	Compared with M PLUS 1	Added
M PLUS 1p	adds Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek and 2 more; static files only	2017
M PLUS 2	matching measurements	2021
M PLUS Code Latin	lowercase narrower by 43	2021
M PLUS Rounded 1c	adds Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek and 2 more; static files only	2018
M PLUS U	adds Symbols 2; lowercase wider by 50	2026

Where it sitsEvery sans serif family is a dot

X-height across the 716 sans serifs with ascenders

294672

Just below: Alef, Dotum; just above: Raleway, Amiko; level with: Aldrich, Cal Sans, Hedvig Letters Sans

Average lowercase width across the 732 sans serifs

1831,319

Just below: M PLUS 1p, Faculty Glyphic; just above: Shippori Antique, Shippori Antique B1

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

Scripts4 subsets · families sharing each

Inside the file

In the measured file: 6,613 Unicode characters are mapped.

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

Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em

Instrument Sansshorter x-height, narrower Tomorrowtaller x-height, wider Mondashorter x-height, narrower

Outside the sans serif class

Modern Antiquataller x-height, wider Reddit Monoshorter x-height, wider Iosevka Charonequal x-height, narrower

Rank every family against M PLUS 1

Same designer

Coji Morishita is also credited on M PLUS 1 Code.