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Six Caps

Among the 732 sans serifs, Six Caps has the second-narrowest lowercase and the third-tallest capitals. It has no ascenders or descenders on its lowercase keys: the d stands no taller than the x, as in 111 other families in the library.

Outlines drawn from the SixCaps file. The d and p keys carry no ascender or descender in this design. The dashed line is the median height of the x among the families drawn this way.

Measure, per 1,000 em	Six Caps	Median of 112 families without ascenders
Cap height (top of H)	844	701
Height of the x	750	671
Average width, a–z keys	224	536
Ink coverage, a–z keys	49.4%	42.0%

Where it sitsEvery sans serif family is a dot

Cap height across the 732 sans serifs

404911

Just below: Matangi, Fjalla One; just above: Kite One, Momo Signature

Average width of the a–z keys across the 732 sans serifs

1831,319

Just below: Dorsa; just above: Chathura, Wire One

Weights and styles

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

Scripts1 subset · families sharing each

Latin1,843

Inside the file

In the measured file: 438 glyphs and 387 mapped Unicode characters; one OpenType feature tag.

Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em

Bayonshorter cap height, wider BBH Bogleshorter cap height, wider Encode Sans SCshorter cap height, wider New Amsterdamshorter cap height, wider Carrois Gothic SCshorter cap height, wider Signika SCshorter cap height, wider

Outside the sans serif class

Jersey 10 Chartedshorter cap height, wider Jacquard 24 Chartedshorter cap height, wider Jersey 15 Chartedshorter cap height, wider

Rank every family against Six Caps

Same designer

Vernon Adams is credited on 57 other families in the library, from Nobile (2010) to Anton SC (2024); the closest of them in x-height and width is Amatic SC.