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Raleway

Raleway is one of 91 families offering all nine weights from Thin to Black, each with an italic. It carries true small capitals, a feature present in 179 of the 1,899 families. At its regular weight it looks lighter on the page than 95% of the sans serifs, by ink coverage.

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

Measure, per 1,000 em	Raleway	Median of 732 sans serifs
Ascender (top of d)	730	740
Cap height (top of H)	710	702
x-height (top of x)	521	519
Descender (foot of p)	−213	−213
x-height ÷ cap height	0.73	0.70
Average lowercase width	526	522
Ink coverage, a–z	32.9%	40.2%

Where it sitsEvery sans serif family is a dot

X-height across the 716 sans serifs with ascenders

294672

Just below: Aldrich, Cal Sans; just above: Amiko, Asap Sharp

Average lowercase width across the 732 sans serifs

1831,319

Just below: Anta, Bpmf Huninn; just above: Tenor Sans, Saira

Weights and styles

One variable file per style covers every weight from 100 to 900.

Axis	Tag	Range	In the library
Weight	wght	100 to 900	545 families

Scripts5 subsets · families sharing each

Inside the file

In the measured file: 1,071 glyphs and 936 mapped Unicode characters; 30 OpenType feature tags.

Declared features: capitals to small capitals, lining figures, fractions, superscripts, subscripts, ordinals, standard ligatures, discretionary ligatures, stylistic alternates and eleven stylistic sets.

Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em

Quicksandshorter x-height, narrower M PLUS Rounded 1cshorter x-height, wider M PLUS 1pshorter x-height, wider M PLUS 1shorter x-height, wider M PLUS 2shorter x-height, wider Albert Sansshorter x-height, narrower

Outside the sans serif class

Datatypeshorter x-height, narrower Arimaequal x-height, narrower Chilankashorter x-height, narrower

Rank every family against Raleway

Same designer

Matt McInerney is also credited on Allerta, Allerta Stencil and Orbitron. Pablo Impallari is credited on 5 other families in the library, from Poetsen One (2012) to Libre Caslon Condensed (2026); the closest of them in x-height and width is Public Sans. Rodrigo Fuenzalida is credited on 11 other families in the library, from Titan One (2012) to Libre Caslon Condensed (2026); the closest of them in x-height and width is Public Sans.