Bowl

The closed curved stroke enclosing a counter, as in b, d, p and q.

Near it

what it is	the closed curved stroke of a b, d, p or q, and the part that decides how open the letter looks
measured on this shelf	the b's enclosed counter as a fraction of its own ink box runs 0.0830 (Drew Pixel) to 0.3046 (Drew Hairline) across the twenty families whose b is one closed form, with Drew Extrude lower at 0.0574 because its depth fills part of the counter; and the bowl, the ink to the right of the stem, stands 0.66 (Drew Stencil) to 0.90 (Drew Poster) of the b's height, which is each face's x-height and its overshoot; Drew Extrude reads 0.95 because ink beside its stem reaches above its own x-height, and that ink is not the bowl	measured on the fixed shelf, 2026-09-28, which sets the letter at 400px on its baseline in each family's Regular and counts ink. 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; the 0.40 to 0.61 it gave for the bowl's height named no method and none reproduces it
two the measure does not describe	Drew Engrave 0.4770 and Drew Outline 0.4881	drawn as a fine line round the Regular's silhouette, so the white the flood cannot reach includes the inside of the drawn stroke as well as the counter. Construction, not a bowl
and one has no bowl at all by this measure	Drew Perforate, whose b has no closed counter	the outside reaches the middle through the perforations, exactly as it does in its o