Lining figures

Also called Titling figures

Numerals all drawn at cap height and sitting on the baseline, which suits tables and headlines and shouts inside a paragraph.

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measured on this shelf, and the figures are on the line	every family ships lining figures and only lining figures, and in Drew Grotesk they stand on the baseline and top out at the cap: the 1, 4 and 7 sit exactly on 0 and 700, and every curve in the others passes the line or the cap by 13 units, the O's own 13	read off all 84 files with fontTools, 2026-09-28. On the shelf of 2026-09-24 the 0, 3 and 8 ran from 57 units under the baseline to 57 over the cap, the 2 topped out at 809 and the 5, 6 and 9 went 86 to 100 under the line: the old fault left in the figures after the letters were fixed, because the baseline gate measures H, n, x, E and L and never saw a digit. The foundry reseated the figures on 2026-09-28
what the numbers looked like before they were looked at	five of the ten read as descending below the H's foot, by 29 to 43 units of 1000	measured 2026-09-11 on a build that was replaced before it shipped, and read then as the round bowls overshooting. On the shelf of 2026-09-24 the curved digits ran 57 to 100 units under the line, three to seven times the O's own 13, so it was not an overshoot: it was the figures carrying the fault the letters no longer did. On the shelf of 2026-09-28 they run 13 under, the O's own
and there is no alternative to them	no face here carries onum	there is no GSUB table in ANY of the 84 files, so the OpenType feature that would carry this cannot be reached at all: it is absent, not merely unused