Drew Ink The year

Ascender

The part of a lowercase letter rising above the x-height, as in b, d, h and k.

Ascender: a letter in the house face with the ascender marked in vermilion.
Ascender, drawn, Drew Ink. Drawn 2026-09-10.
Ascender: a letter in Drew Slab Regular with the ascender marked in vermilion.
Ascender, drawn, in Drew Slab Regular, Drew Ink. Drawn 2026-09-29.

Near it

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What it is made of

measured on this shelf, and the measurement is a nilb, d, l and k top out at EXACTLY the cap height on all 23 families, so not one face here has an ascender that clears its own capitalsmeasured over all 23 house families with fontTools, re-measured on the fixed shelf 2026-09-24 with the same result, and first confirmed in rendered ink at 600px on Drew Slab, Grotesk, Poster, Display and Gazette, where every one of the four letters tops out within a pixel of the H
what that costsa line of lowercase on this shelf has no stroke above cap height in ita house limitation, written here rather than left for a reader to notice on a page
what it would take to measure the other casea face whose b rises above its HUNMEASURED. This house holds no such face, and saying what other foundries do would be recall rather than measurement