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Paprika

Among the 406 display faces, Paprika has the third-tallest ascenders and the fourth-tallest capitals. It has a taller x-height than 98% of the 406 display faces with ascenders.

Outlines drawn from the Paprika-Regular file at weight 400. The dashed line is the median x-height of the display faces.

Measure, per 1,000 em	Paprika	Median of 472 display faces
Ascender (top of d)	937	726
Cap height (top of H)	889	701
x-height (top of x)	670	507
Descender (foot of p)	−271	−208
x-height ÷ cap height	0.75	0.70
Average lowercase width	589	506
Ink coverage, a–z	40.4%	48.7%

Where it sitsEvery display family is a dot

X-height across the 406 display faces with ascenders

283870

Just below: Slackey, Rubik Puddles; just above: Hanalei, Hanalei Fill

Average lowercase width across the 472 display faces

2161,293

Just below: Offside, Train One; just above: Goldman, Palette Mosaic; level with: Tourney

Weights and styles

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

Scripts2 subsets · families sharing each

Latin1,843
Latin Extended1,525

Inside the file

In the measured file: 464 glyphs and 427 mapped Unicode characters; 13 OpenType feature tags.

Declared features: fractions, superscripts, subscripts, ordinals, standard ligatures and case-sensitive forms.

Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em

Autour Oneshorter x-height, wider Metamorphousshorter x-height, wider Kumar One Outlineshorter x-height, wider Henny Pennyshorter x-height, narrower Rampart Oneshorter x-height, narrower Offsideshorter x-height, same width

Outside the display class

Matangishorter x-height, narrower Meriendashorter x-height, narrower Quandoshorter x-height, wider

Rank every family against Paprika

Same designer

Eduardo Tunni is credited on 36 other families in the library, from Arapey (2011) to Lumanosimo (2023); the closest of them in x-height and width is Offside.