Oswald
Oswald has a taller x-height than 97% of the 716 sans serifs with ascenders. It sets a narrower lowercase than 94% of the 732 sans serifs. At its regular weight it looks darker on the page than 92% of the sans serifs, by ink coverage.
| Measure, per 1,000 em | Oswald | Median of 732 sans serifs |
|---|---|---|
| Ascender (top of d) | 810 | 740 |
| Cap height (top of H) | 810 | 702 |
| x-height (top of x) | 578 | 519 |
| Descender (foot of p) | −190 | −213 |
| x-height ÷ cap height | 0.71 | 0.70 |
| Average lowercase width | 400 | 522 |
| Ink coverage, a–z | 54.5% | 40.2% |
Where it sitsEvery sans serif family is a dot
X-height across the 716 sans serifs with ascenders
Just below: Krona One, RocknRoll One; just above: Orbitron, Armata
Average lowercase width across the 732 sans serifs
Just below: Darker Grotesque, Truculenta; just above: Saira Condensed, Gemunu Libre
Weights and styles
One variable file per style covers every weight from 200 to 700, with no italic; six of the nine standard steps fall inside that range.
| Axis | Tag | Range | In the library |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weight | wght | 200 to 700 | 545 families |
Scripts5 subsets · families sharing each
- Latin1,843
- Latin Extended1,525
- Vietnamese532
- Cyrillic306
- Cyrillic Extended243
Inside the file
In the measured file: 883 glyphs and 850 mapped Unicode characters; twelve OpenType feature tags.
Declared features: fractions, superscripts, ordinals, standard ligatures, discretionary ligatures and case-sensitive forms.
Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em
Outside the sans serif class
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 Freeman. 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 Rationale.
File: ofl/oswald, google/fonts 9862abc · font software © its authors, SIL Open Font License 1.1 · method