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Workbench

Workbench’s Bleed axis (BLED) appears in only three other families. Among the 42 monospaced families, it has the tallest ascenders and the second-darkest regular-weight lowercase.

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

Measure, per 1,000 em	Workbench	Median of 44 monospaced families
Ascender (top of d)	861	730
Cap height (top of H)	861	699
x-height (top of x)	611	517
Descender (foot of p)	−111	−200
x-height ÷ cap height	0.71	0.70
Average lowercase width	500	600
Ink coverage, a–z	49.8%	36.0%

Where it sitsEvery monospace family is a dot

X-height across the 42 monospaced families with ascenders

378748

Just below: B612 Mono, Azeret Mono; just above: Digital Numbers; level with: Sixtyfour

Average lowercase width across the 44 monospaced families

4001,000

Just below: VT323; just above: Iosevka Charon, Share Tech Mono; level with: Datatype, Iosevka Charon Mono, Lekton

Weights and styles

Variable along other axes but drawn in a single weight (Regular), with no italic.

Axis	Tag	Range	In the library
Bleed	BLED	0 to 100	axis page
Scanlines	SCAN	-53 to 100	2 families

Scripts3 subsets · families sharing each

Latin1,843
Math73
Symbols69

Inside the file

In the measured file: 237 glyphs and 217 mapped Unicode characters; one OpenType feature tag.

Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em

Nova Monoshorter x-height, wider Xanh Monoshorter x-height, same width JetBrains Monoshorter x-height, wider Iosevka Charonshorter x-height, wider Iosevka Charon Monoshorter x-height, same width M PLUS 1 Codeshorter x-height, same width

Outside the monospace class

Gugishorter x-height, wider BIZ UDGothicshorter x-height, same width Cossette Texteshorter x-height, narrower

Rank every family against Workbench

Same designer

Jens Kutílek is also credited on Sixtyfour.