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Qahiri

Among the 716 sans serifs, Qahiri has the smallest x-height relative to its capitals and the third-shortest x-height. It sets a narrower lowercase than 99% of the 732 sans serifs.

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

Measure, per 1,000 em	Qahiri	Median of 732 sans serifs
Ascender (top of d)	747	740
Cap height (top of H)	747	702
x-height (top of x)	307	519
Descender (foot of p)	−333	−213
x-height ÷ cap height	0.41	0.70
Average lowercase width	313	522
Ink coverage, a–z	74.7%	40.2%

Where it sitsEvery sans serif family is a dot

X-height across the 716 sans serifs with ascenders

294672

Just below: Dongle, Chathura; just above: Gidugu, Gurajada

Average lowercase width across the 732 sans serifs

1831,319

Just below: Sofia Sans Extra Condensed, League Gothic; just above: Dongle, BenchNine

Weights and styles

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

Scripts2 subsets · families sharing each

Latin1,843
Arabic54

Inside the file

In the measured file: 512 glyphs and 206 mapped Unicode characters; 19 OpenType feature tags.

Declared features: old-style figures, stylistic alternates and three stylistic sets.

Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em

Chau Philomene Onetaller x-height, wider WDXL Lubrifont JP Ntaller x-height, wider WDXL Lubrifont SCtaller x-height, wider WDXL Lubrifont TCtaller x-height, wider Juataller x-height, wider Story Scripttaller x-height, wider

Outside the sans serif class

Engagementshorter x-height, narrower Fasthandtaller x-height, wider Freehandtaller x-height, wider

Rank every family against Qahiri

Same designer

Khaled Hosny is credited on 7 other families in the library, from Thabit (2010) to Fustat (2024); the closest of them in x-height and width is Amiri.