Buttress Bowl Sans Solid Circular Counter Font

Buttress Bowl Sans's lowercase x reaches 71.4% of the capital height, close to the 71.4% median for sans 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 28% of the cap height below the baseline. The o is close to a circle, 1.03 times as wide as it is tall, and W is the widest capital, at 1.31 times the width of H. Round letters overshoot: O rises 1.3% of the cap height above H and dips 1.2% below the baseline.

The letters stand upright, leaning less than 2.5° either way. Vertical stems measure 19.1% of the cap height. The contrast is mild: the sides of o and O are 1.17 times as thick as their tops and bottoms.

Its 331 characters include 288 Latin letters, plus 43 figures, punctuation marks and symbols; 236 of the Latin letters are accented or special forms beyond A to Z. The word space measures 46% of the cap height, and the blank space either side of a lowercase letter takes up 13.5% of its width. The font carries no kerning, so spacing comes from each letter’s own side bearings. The figures have different widths, so columns of numbers set in Buttress Bowl Sans will not line up exactly.