Beacon Slab Broad Faceted Counter Font

Beacon Slab's lowercase x reaches 74.9% of the capital height, close to the 74.9% median for serif fonts. Ascenders on b, d, h, k and l rise 3.7% above the capitals, and descenders on g, j, p, q and y drop 26.4% of the cap height below the baseline. The o is wider than it is tall, 1.20 to 1, and W is the widest capital, at 1.32 times the width of H. Round letters overshoot: O rises 1.5% of the cap height above H and dips 1.5% below the baseline.

The letters stand upright, leaning less than 2.5° either way. Vertical stems measure 21.4% of the cap height. Strokes change thickness with direction: the sides of o and O are 1.7 times as thick as their tops and bottoms.

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 38.6% of the cap height, and the blank space either side of a lowercase letter takes up 9.8% of its width. Spacing is adjusted with 272 kerning pairs, the most of all 1 serif fonts. The tightest of them is VA, which closes up by 33.9% of the cap height. The figures have different widths, so columns of numbers set in Beacon Slab will not line up exactly.