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I am need of a typeface with descenders that match or come close to the x-height. Can you recommend some?

System fonts or free fonts would be ideal.

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A visual search in dafont's or Font Squirrel's sans-serif section one will probably give you better results.

Fontscape has a section with long descenders, but they are paid fonts.

These are some of the ones I found, they look very similar, but I'm sure you can find lots more if you do a search.

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  • @IanGraham yisela has done her best here to keep it to freeware. But notice the difference between the free fonts and the commercial font I recommended. Those freebies are all quite clumsy. For $45 USD, Canterbury (or many other commercial fonts) would make your work look professional. In the same sense, a client can get design work for free or next to nothing but would they want to?
    – plainclothes
    Feb 1, 2013 at 17:15
  • @plainclothes Yes, I agree. People giving fonts for free make their best effort with the resources they have. At the same time, it's always good to support the professional designers.
    – Yisela
    Feb 3, 2013 at 7:20
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Canterbury Sans takes the height a step further. Since it's basically mono-weight, it would be a simple matter to compress the extender lengths for a logotype or headline.

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