Fonts similar to Bigelow Rules

The 100 fonts like Bigelow Rules, measured

Bigelow Rules is narrower than almost all the fonts like it: 98 of the 100 are wider and 1 narrower. Few keep Bigelow Rules’s proportions: at most 11 keep its weight on the page, within 6%, Aujournuit Condensed the closest of them. 54 are display faces like Bigelow Rules, and 41 serifs, 2 monospaced fonts, 2 sans serifs and 1 handwriting font come close too, Imbue the closest of them. They part from Bigelow Rules most often in q (35 of the 100), e (25) and 2 (21).

• WidthBigelow Rules: 27% of the em

  1 narrower

  Tulpen One 15 · 19% narrower

  1 within 3%

  Bahianita 15 · 0.3% narrower

  98 wider

  Aujournuit Condensed 87 · 28% wider

  Aujournuit Densed 79 · 49% wider

• x-heightBigelow Rules: 54% of the em

  77 shorter

  Aujournuit Condensed 87 · x-height 6% shorter

  Aujournuit Densed 79 · x-height 6% shorter

  9 within 3%

  Imbue 61 · x-height 2.3% shorter

  Girassol 56 · x-height 0.7% taller

  14 taller

  Picaflor 66 · x-height 31% taller

  CAT Hohenzollern 42 · x-height 6% taller

• InkBigelow Rules: 33% ink

  20 lighter

  Aujournuit Densed 79 · 11% lighter

  Aujournuit 65 · 17% lighter

  11 within 6%

  Aujournuit Condensed 87 · 3% lighter

  Picaflor 66 · 4.8% heavier

  69 heavier

  Smythe 73 · 35% heavier

  Imbue 61 · 42% heavier

• ContrastBigelow Rules: 3.12 : 1

  53 less contrast

  Smythe 73 · less stroke contrast

  Imbue 61 · less stroke contrast

  15 within 12%

  Girassol 56

  Instrument Serif 44

  27 more contrast

  Aujournuit Condensed 87 · more stroke contrast

  Aujournuit Densed 79 · more stroke contrast

• StylesBigelow Rules: one weight

  34 in more weights

  Imbue 61 · 9 weights

  Bonny 53 · 5 weights

  14 with italics

  Instrument Serif 44 · 1 weight

  Simonetta 42 · 2 weights

  8 variable

  Imbue 61 · 9 weights

  Parastoo 33 · 4 weights

• LettersWhere they differ most

  1. q35 of 100
  2. e25 of 100
  3. 221 of 100