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Nunito

Nunito 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. Only 17% of today’s sans serifs were added to the library before it.

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

Measure, per 1,000 em	Nunito	Median of 732 sans serifs
Ascender (top of d)	712	740
Cap height (top of H)	712	702
x-height (top of x)	493	519
Descender (foot of p)	−187	−213
x-height ÷ cap height	0.69	0.70
Average lowercase width	508	522
Ink coverage, a–z	38.5%	40.2%

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

Version	Compared with Nunito	Added
Nunito Sans	matching measurements	2016

Where it sitsEvery sans serif family is a dot

X-height across the 716 sans serifs with ascenders

294672

Just below: Hanken Grotesk, Merge One; just above: Metrophobic, Blinker

Average lowercase width across the 732 sans serifs

1831,319

Just below: Merge One, Savate; just above: Livvic, Fira Sans; level with: Nunito Sans

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: 1,103 glyphs and 938 mapped Unicode characters; 20 OpenType feature tags.

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

Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em

Metrophobicequal x-height, wider Wix Madefor Textshorter x-height, wider Albert Sanstaller x-height, wider Wix Madefor Displayshorter x-height, wider Bai Jamjureetaller x-height, wider

Outside the sans serif class

Redaction 70shorter x-height, narrower LXGW WenKai Mono TCshorter x-height, narrower Causetaller x-height, narrower

Rank every family against Nunito

Same designer

Vernon Adams is credited on 56 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 Marmelad. Jacques Le Bailly is credited on 14 other families in the library, from Pacifico (2011) to Montserrat Underline (2024); the closest of them in x-height and width is Livvic.