Crossbar
Also called Bar, Arm
The horizontal stroke crossing a stem or joining two of them, as in A, H, e and t.
Near it
Humanist
SpurWhat it is made of
| what it is | the horizontal stroke of an H, an A, an e or a t | |
| measured on this shelf | the H's bar sits between 0.457 of the cap height above the baseline (Drew Stencil) and 0.698 (Drew Unicase), with sixteen families between 0.52 and 0.61. Drew Extrude reads 0.321 because the bar of the letter behind it is counted with its own, which is the construction and not a bar | measured on the fixed shelf, 2026-09-29, which sets the letter at 400px on its baseline in each family's Regular and counts ink, read as the rows of the H whose ink spans more than 80 per cent of its width in the middle band of the cap, where a slab's serifs are not. The figures this row carried until 2026-09-24 were made by hand, by a script that is not in the tree, on a build replaced before it shipped, and could not be made again; the method is written down |
| and it is drawn above the middle almost everywhere | 19 of 23 families put it above 0.5; below are Drew Display, Stencil and Engrave, and Extrude by construction | a bar on the true centre reads low, which is the oldest optical correction there is, and this shelf makes it without being told to |
| how thick | from 0.068 of the cap height on Drew Unicase to 0.260 on Drew Poster; Drew Engrave and Drew Outline, whose bar is two fine lines round the Regular's, are not counted | measured on the fixed shelf, 2026-09-24, which sets the letter at 400px on its baseline in each family's Regular and counts ink. The figures this row carried until then were made by hand, by a script that is not in the tree, on a build replaced before it shipped, and could not be made again; the method is written down |