Descender frequency question

[Paulo Ney de Souza]

Hi Doug,

That depends on what you mean by a "typical" line of text. It varies quite
a bit among subjects.

If you take the realm of all words in the English language, as defined  by
OED or MW it is 6.7%, but if you take a Shakeapearean text it will go down
to 4% and on scientific text it can go up to around 8%.

Paulo Ney

On Sat, May 4, 2024 at 9:01 AM Doug McKenna <doug at mathemaesthetics.com>
wrote:

> A question for the typesetting cogniscenti.
>
> On a typical line of Times-Roman English text, with a usual mix of upper-
> and lowercase characters, what percentage of those lowercase characters
> have descenders below the baseline?
>
>
> Doug McKenna
>
>
>
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