Part of the Stu font family, Stu Lo utilises flair/swash-like descenders to extend characters downwards. The character glyphs can be used interchangeably between the various Stu styles to achieve a more "bouncy" typesetting effect.
Stu pays homage to oldstyle numerals, where type designers vary the heights of numbers to resemble a line of running lowercase text. It seeks to address the question: "What if every lowercase alphabet also had varying heights?" The result is a font family with full-fledged ascenders ('Hi'), strictly x-heights ('Mid'), and only descenders ('Lo').
You can view the documentation of the Stu font family design here.
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View this typeface sample in its animated form here.
very nice! i am fond of the whole family.
@jirinvk: Thanks so much!
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