Brook Thistle Clipped Oval Display Font

Brook Thistle's lowercase x reaches 73.5% of the capital height, close to the 73.5% median for sans serif fonts. Ascenders on b, d, h, k and l rise 9.2% above the capitals, and descenders on g, j, p, q and y drop 35% of the cap height below the baseline. The o is an upright oval, 0.66 times as wide as it is tall, and W is the widest capital, at 1.72 times the width of H. Round letters overshoot: O rises 1.3% of the cap height above H and dips 1.3% below the baseline.

The letters stand upright, leaning less than 2.5° either way. Vertical stems measure 15.4% of the cap height. The contrast is reversed: the tops and bottoms of o and O are 1.4 times as thick as their sides.

Its 191 characters include 124 Latin letters, plus 67 figures, punctuation marks and symbols; 72 of the Latin letters are accented or special forms beyond A to Z. The word space measures 28.4% of the cap height, and the blank space either side of a lowercase letter takes up 12.7% of its width. Spacing is adjusted with 856 kerning pairs, the most of all 1 sans serif fonts. The tightest of them is LY, which closes up by 10% of the cap height. The figures have different widths, so columns of numbers set in Brook Thistle will not line up exactly.