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PT Sans

PT Sans is one of the 60 families dated 2010, the earliest year in the repository’s records of when families were added. It has a shorter x-height than 67% of the 716 sans serifs with ascenders. It sets a narrower lowercase than 72% of the 732 sans serifs.

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

Measure, per 1,000 em	PT Sans	Median of 732 sans serifs
Ascender (top of d)	700	740
Cap height (top of H)	700	702
x-height (top of x)	500	519
Descender (foot of p)	−200	−213
x-height ÷ cap height	0.71	0.70
Average lowercase width	481	522
Ink coverage, a–z	40.1%	40.2%

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

Version	Compared with PT Sans	Added
PT Sans Caption	lowercase wider by 78; x-height taller by 25	2010
PT Sans Narrow	lowercase narrower by 94	2010

Where it sitsEvery sans serif family is a dot

X-height across the 716 sans serifs with ascenders

294672

Just below: Akatab, Pontano Sans; just above: Mako, Sour Gummy; level with: Abel, Advent Pro, Akt

Average lowercase width across the 732 sans serifs

1831,319

Just below: Jua, Bricolage Grotesque; just above: Almarai, Kedebideri; level with: Actor

Weights and styles

Static files in two weights (Regular and Bold), with a matching italic; 4 font files in all.

Scripts4 subsets · families sharing each

Inside the file

In the measured file: 720 glyphs and 717 mapped Unicode characters; eleven OpenType feature tags.

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

Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em

Kulim Parkequal x-height, wider Makoequal x-height, wider Figtreeequal x-height, wider Istok Webtaller x-height, wider Hanken Groteskshorter x-height, wider Red Hat Displaytaller x-height, wider

Outside the sans serif class

Cairoequal x-height, narrower Redaction 70shorter x-height, wider Karmashorter x-height, wider

Rank every family against PT Sans

Same designer

ParaType is credited on 4 other families in the library, from PT Serif (2011) to Roboto (2013); the closest of them in x-height and width is PT Serif.