Basalt Lumen Tall Oval Blunt Serif Font

Basalt Lumen's lowercase x reaches 70.2% of the capital height, close to the 70.2% median for serif fonts. Ascenders on b, d, h, k and l rise 4% above the capitals, and descenders on g, j, p, q and y drop 31.8% of the cap height below the baseline. The o is close to a circle, 0.93 times as wide as it is tall, and W is the widest capital, at 1.19 times the width of H. Round letters overshoot: O rises 1.7% of the cap height above H and dips 1.8% below the baseline.

The letters stand upright, leaning less than 2.5° either way. Vertical stems measure 14% of the cap height. It is close to monoline, with the sides of o and O 1.08 times as thick as their tops and bottoms.

Its 345 characters include 245 Latin letters, plus 100 figures, punctuation marks and symbols; 193 of the Latin letters are accented or special forms beyond A to Z. The word space measures 37.6% of the cap height, and the blank space either side of a lowercase letter takes up 13.2% of its width. Spacing is adjusted with 31,960 kerning pairs, the most of all 1 serif fonts. The tightest of them is kj, which closes up by 35.9% of the cap height. The figures have different widths, so columns of numbers set in Basalt Lumen will not line up exactly.