Text height with respect to staff space standards

[Wescott]

I'm trying to arrive at a good point of departure for how tall capitalized letters should be with respect to staff space size. I've been measuring but finding no consistency. Any opinions?

[tisimst]

I’ve found that it’s more about x-height (or lower case letter height) than capital letter height. The value that always looks the most cohesive to me is an x-height around 1-staff space. There’s definitely some wiggle room there, a bit more (larger font size) still works well, a bit less (smaller font size) is also ok if space is tight.

[Magnus Johansson]

I'm trying to arrive at a good point of departure for how tall capitalized letters should be with respect to staff space size. I've been measuring but finding no consistency. Any opinions?

Would you give a few examples of the good, bad and ugly?

[Vogel]

The last time I investigated this, the standard I came up with was approximately 2 spaces for capital letters. In the image below, you can see that the letters fit inside the 2 spaces without overlapping the staff lines.

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[Wescott]

I'm trying to arrive at a good point of departure for how tall capitalized letters should be with respect to staff space size. I've been measuring but finding no consistency. Any opinions?

Would you give a few examples of the good, bad and ugly?

I would have to scan them.