Crest Fraktur Forked Sweep Blackletter Font

Crest Fraktur's lowercase x reaches 74.6% of the capital height, close to the 74.6% median for decorative fonts. 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% of the cap height below the baseline. The o is close to a circle, 1.14 times as wide as it is tall, and M is the widest capital, at 1.27 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 35.8% of the cap height, and the blank space either side of a lowercase letter takes up 7.4% of its width. Spacing is adjusted with 249 kerning pairs, the most of all 1 decorative fonts. The tightest of them is Ts, which closes up by 19.8% of the cap height. The figures have different widths, so columns of numbers set in Crest Fraktur will not line up exactly.