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Wire One

Among the 732 sans serifs, Wire One has the fourth-narrowest lowercase and the third-lightest regular-weight lowercase. Its regular file holds 224 glyphs, against a median of 686 for the sans serifs.

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

Measure, per 1,000 em	Wire One	Median of 732 sans serifs
Ascender (top of d)	710	740
Cap height (top of H)	710	702
x-height (top of x)	510	519
Descender (foot of p)	−210	−213
x-height ÷ cap height	0.72	0.70
Average lowercase width	255	522
Ink coverage, a–z	19.0%	40.2%

Where it sitsEvery sans serif family is a dot

X-height across the 716 sans serifs with ascenders

294672

Just below: Mouse Memoirs, Seymour One; just above: Hammersmith One, TikTok Sans; level with: Acme, AR One Sans, Google Sans

Average lowercase width across the 732 sans serifs

1831,319

Just below: Chathura, Six Caps; just above: Georama, League Gothic

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: 220 Unicode characters are mapped.

Declared features: fractions, superscripts and ordinals.

Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em

Dorsashorter x-height, narrower Marvelshorter x-height, wider Economicataller x-height, wider Bubbler Onetaller x-height, wider Advent Proshorter x-height, wider Abelshorter x-height, wider

Outside the sans serif class

Zen Loopshorter x-height, wider Tulpen Oneshorter x-height, narrower Londrina Sketchtaller x-height, wider

Rank every family against Wire One

Same designer

Cyreal is credited on 34 other families in the library, from Yanone Kaffeesatz (2010) to Rubik (2015); the closest of them in x-height and width is Yanone Kaffeesatz.