Stress
Also called Axis
The direction of the imaginary line through the thinnest points of a round letter, which tells you what tool the face descends from.
Public domain
Public domain: Printed in Venice in 1470; Jenson died in 1480, and the book is out of copyright everywhere; Commons tags the file public domain, and this house reads a faithful photograph of a flat public-domain page as carrying no new copyright.Near it
Humanist
Garalde
Transitional
Didone
Reverse contrast
Stroke contrast
What it is made of
| what it is | the axis through the thinnest parts of a round letter, set by the angle a broad pen was held at | |
| measured on the ink, and then corrected from the source | the four walls of the o differ by at most 1.083 to 1 on twenty-one of twenty-three families, so THE O HAS NO STRESS. But "this shelf is monolinear", which this row said for one commit, is wrong: 17 of 23 families draw at least one stroke THINNER than the stem, the e's crossbar between 0.660 and 0.950 of it | the o measured on the fixed shelf, 2026-09-24; the crossbar read from the shelf's own stroke data rather than off its ink, because an o is ONE stroke of ONE width and a measurement taken on it can never see a crossbar. Corrected 2026-09-11 from the stroke data, which says what the ink only implies |
| the two that are not monolinear are not stressed either | Drew Perforate reads 2.692 because its o is six dashes and the tool measures the gaps between them; Drew Terrace reads 1.1 because its o is a hexagon, flat at the top and bottom and pointed at the sides, so the run the tool takes across the middle crosses a corner and reads 88 against 80. Drew Engrave and Drew Outline, which read 6.75 and 5.857 until 2026-09-24, now read 1.083 and 1.0: the bar that crossed their rings at the seam is gone | all four checked by rendering the o at 300px on 2026-09-24, Terrace and Perforate again on 2026-09-28. A construction is not a pen angle and the record does not call one the other |
| what the first version of this measurement said | that Drew Condensed is horizontally stressed | it read 68 against 69 in a rendered edge and named a direction off it. That is antialiasing. The tool says monolinear below 1.10 now, because inventing a property for twenty families is worse than reporting that there is none to find |