Anchor Script Oval Nib Swash Font

Anchor Script's lowercase x reaches 47.5% of the capital height, close to the 47.5% median for script fonts. Ascenders on b, d, h, k and l line up with the capitals (99.2% of their height), and descenders on g, j, p, q and y drop 50.9% of the cap height below the baseline. The o is wider than it is tall, 1.69 to 1, and M is the widest capital, at 1.29 times the width of H. The O tops out level with H and stands 0.4% above the baseline.

Its 148 characters include 105 Latin letters, plus 43 figures, punctuation marks and symbols; 53 of the Latin letters are accented or special forms beyond A to Z. The word space measures 35.4% of the cap height, and lowercase letters reach 30% past their own widths into the space of their neighbours. Spacing is adjusted with 54 kerning pairs, the most of all 1 script fonts. The tightest of them is FA, which closes up by 28.3% of the cap height. The figures have different widths, so columns of numbers set in Anchor Script will not line up exactly.