high x-height


Type with a high x-height has a relatively large distance between the baseline and the tops of the main body of lowercase letters, typically having short ascenders and descenders.

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Rapida
5 Styles
Ping Round Hebrew
9 Styles
Ping Round Armenian
9 Styles
Ping Round
18 Styles
Delvard Serif Text
4 Styles

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Tremolo Sans, an Unlikely Companion Typeface
Tremolo Sans is a surprising low-contrast typeface with large x-height and unexpected humanist details.
29 October 2020
Murtaugh & Riggs, a duo of complementary typeface families
The veteran and the young blood, a duo of typefaces defined by a generational divide.
14 January 2020
Typotheque’s 20th! Edge’s 20th!
Typotheque turns 20 this month, and to celebrate we have prepared a number of announcements as well as a digital revival of a font that we first published in 1999.
3 September 2019
Zico Hebrew
Designed by Daniel Grumer, Zico Hebrew is a modern and versatile low-contrast typeface family.
4 October 2017
November, utilitarian street signage typeface
November is a rational, utilitarian typeface inspired by street signage. Unlike most signage types it also handles long texts with ease.
12 September 2016

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x-height
The x-height refers to the distance between the baseline and the top of the lower case line in a typeface. Typically, this is the height of the letter x in the font (the source of the term).