Banner Fraktur Hooked Spur Blackletter Font

Its x-height is 73.5% of the cap height, near the 73.5% typical of decorative fonts in the library. Ascenders on b, d, h, k and l line up with the capitals (99.3% of their height), and descenders on g, j, p, q and y drop 21.8% of the cap height below the baseline. The o is close to a circle, 1.08 times as wide as it is tall, and M is the widest capital, at 1.29 times the width of H. The O stops 0.7% of the cap height short of H and sits on the baseline.

The letters stand upright, leaning less than 2.5° either way.

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 34% of the cap height, and the blank space either side of a lowercase letter takes up 6.7% of its width. Spacing is adjusted with 166 kerning pairs, the most of all 1 decorative fonts. The tightest of them is fa, which closes up by 11.7% of the cap height. The figures have different widths, so columns of numbers set in Banner Fraktur will not line up exactly.