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Poppins

Poppins is one of 91 families offering all nine weights from Thin to Black, each with an italic. It has a taller x-height than 92% of the 716 sans serifs with ascenders. It sets a wider lowercase than 89% of the 732 sans serifs.

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

Measure, per 1,000 em	Poppins	Median of 732 sans serifs
Ascender (top of d)	740	740
Cap height (top of H)	697	702
x-height (top of x)	548	519
Descender (foot of p)	−260	−213
x-height ÷ cap height	0.79	0.70
Average lowercase width	561	522
Ink coverage, a–z	40.9%	40.2%

Where it sitsEvery sans serif family is a dot

X-height across the 716 sans serifs with ascenders

294672

Just below: League Gothic, Kripa; just above: Parkinsans, Vend Sans

Average lowercase width across the 732 sans serifs

1831,319

Just below: Stack Sans Text, Amiko; just above: Biryani, Geomini

Weights and styles

Static files from Thin to Black.

Scripts3 subsets · families sharing each

Inside the file

In the measured file: 1,060 glyphs and 471 mapped Unicode characters; 18 OpenType feature tags.

Declared features: four stylistic sets.

Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em

Parkinsansequal x-height, wider Orientashorter x-height, narrower Noto Sans Mathshorter x-height, narrower Lunasimashorter x-height, narrower Kufamshorter x-height, narrower Noto Musicshorter x-height, narrower

Outside the sans serif class

Koh Santepheapshorter x-height, narrower Noto Naskh Arabicshorter x-height, narrower Noto Nastaliq Urdushorter x-height, narrower

Rank every family against Poppins

Same designer

Indian Type Foundry is credited on 21 other families in the library, from Hind (2014) to Kumar One (2016); the closest of them in x-height and width is Laila. Jonny Pinhorn is also credited on Karla and Shrikhand.