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Mulish

Only 5% of today’s sans serifs were added to the library before Mulish. It offers eight weights, each with an italic, which is more styles than 88% of the sans serifs have. It lists five script subsets, more than 82% of the sans serifs.

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

Measure, per 1,000 em	Mulish	Median of 732 sans serifs
Ascender (top of d)	736	740
Cap height (top of H)	705	702
x-height (top of x)	502	519
Descender (foot of p)	−216	−213
x-height ÷ cap height	0.71	0.70
Average lowercase width	523	522
Ink coverage, a–z	38.5%	40.2%

Where it sitsEvery sans serif family is a dot

X-height across the 716 sans serifs with ascenders

294672

Just below: Signika, Marmelad; just above: Actor, REM

Average lowercase width across the 732 sans serifs

1831,319

Just below: Quantico, Carme; just above: Kantumruy Pro, Matangi

Weights and styles

One variable file per style covers every weight from 200 to 1000.

Axis	Tag	Range	In the library
Weight	wght	200 to 1000	545 families

ScriptsFamilies sharing each subset

Inside the file

In the measured file: 1,063 glyphs and 936 mapped Unicode characters; 17 OpenType feature tags.

Declared features: old-style figures, fractions, superscripts, subscripts, ordinals, standard ligatures, contextual alternates and case-sensitive forms.

Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em

AR One Sanstaller x-height, wider Livvicshorter x-height, narrower Chakra Petchshorter x-height, narrower Albert Sansshorter x-height, narrower Instrument Sanstaller x-height, wider Sairataller x-height, wider

Outside the sans serif class

Arimataller x-height, narrower Saira Stenciltaller x-height, wider Oxaniumtaller x-height, narrower

Rank every family against Mulish

Same designer

Vernon Adams is credited on 57 other families in the library, from Nobile (2010) to Anton SC (2024); the closest of them in x-height and width is Metrophobic. 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 Lora. Jacques Le Bailly is credited on 15 other families in the library, from Pacifico (2011) to Montserrat Underline (2024); the closest of them in x-height and width is Radio Canada.