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VT323

Among the 44 monospaced families, VT323 has the narrowest lowercase and the shortest ascenders. It has a shorter x-height than 98% of the 42 monospaced families with ascenders.

Outlines drawn from the VT323-Regular file at weight 400. The dashed line is the median x-height of the monospaced families.

Measure, per 1,000 em	VT323	Median of 44 monospaced families
Ascender (top of d)	560	730
Cap height (top of H)	560	699
x-height (top of x)	400	517
Descender (foot of p)	−160	−200
x-height ÷ cap height	0.71	0.70
Average lowercase width	400	600
Ink coverage, a–z	48.3%	36.0%

Where it sitsEvery monospace family is a dot

X-height across the 42 monospaced families with ascenders

378748

Just below: Cutive Mono; just above: Courier Prime, Anonymous Pro

Average lowercase width across the 44 monospaced families

4001,000

Just above: Datatype, Iosevka Charon Mono

Weights and styles

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

Scripts3 subsets · families sharing each

Inside the file

In the measured file: 587 glyphs and 568 mapped Unicode characters; eleven OpenType feature tags.

Declared features: fractions, superscripts, ordinals, standard ligatures, discretionary ligatures and slashed zero.

Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em

Ubuntu Monotaller x-height, wider Anonymous Protaller x-height, wider Courier Primetaller x-height, wider Lektontaller x-height, wider Cutive Monoshorter x-height, wider Syne Monotaller x-height, wider

Outside the monospace class

Jacquard 12shorter x-height, wider Jacquard 24shorter x-height, narrower Mirzataller x-height, wider

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