statement--type-statement-size
- font
- sans
- size
- statement · 40→190px
- leading
- 0.786
- tracking
- -0.04
- weight
- 900
- wrap
- balance
- fluid
- 40 → 190px across 390–1440px
A typeface has to work at every size a design asks of it, and a name cannot tell you whether it does. Read the setting instead: how the letters space themselves, where the lines break, how ascenders and descenders sit against the leading, whether the numerals 0123456789 hold their place in a column. Every style on this page is set in this same paragraph, so the only thing that changes from one to the next is the type itself — and because the box below is one height for all of them, the amount you can read is itself a measure of the size. Large styles fill it in two or three lines and run out; small ones carry the paragraph most of the way to its end. Look for the shapes that give a face away: the a and the g, the terminals on the c and the s, the distance between a capital I, a lowercase l and the figure 1. Then read a line at speed, and see whether the words hold together or fall apart into letters.