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Maiden Orange

Among the 354 serifs, Maiden Orange has the fifth-narrowest lowercase. It is one of the 60 families dated 2010, the earliest year in the repository’s records of when families were added.

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

Measure, per 1,000 em	Maiden Orange	Median of 354 serifs
Ascender (top of d)	710	747
Cap height (top of H)	696	700
x-height (top of x)	504	482
Descender (foot of p)	−201	−233
x-height ÷ cap height	0.72	0.70
Average lowercase width	367	514
Ink coverage, a–z	58.6%	41.5%

Where it sitsEvery serif family is a dot

X-height across the 336 serifs with ascenders

302600

Just below: Bree Serif, Montagu Slab; just above: Halant, Lustria

Average lowercase width across the 354 serifs

2751,028

Just below: Ramsina, Imbue; just above: Lateef, Markazi Text

Weights and styles

A single static weight, Regular (400), with no italic.

Scripts1 subset · families sharing each

Latin1,843

Inside the file

In the measured file: 369 glyphs and 366 mapped Unicode characters; six OpenType feature tags.

Declared features: fractions, superscripts, ordinals and standard ligatures.

Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em

Imbuetaller x-height, narrower Stint Ultra Condensedshorter x-height, narrower Epunda Slabshorter x-height, wider Kreonshorter x-height, wider Odor Mean Cheyshorter x-height, wider Port Lligat Slabshorter x-height, wider

Outside the serif class

Yanone Kaffeesatzshorter x-height, narrower WDXL Lubrifont JP Nshorter x-height, wider WDXL Lubrifont SCshorter x-height, wider

Rank every family against Maiden Orange

Same designer

Astigmatic is credited on 58 other families in the library, from Just Another Hand (2010) to Lugrasimo (2023); the closest of them in x-height and width is Smokum.