I guess you pinpointed one reason I like Deja so much: The x height of its lowercase letters is slightly higher than the median line. In other words, the x hei

I guess you pinpointed one reason I like Deja so much: The x height of its lowercase letters is slightly higher than the median line. In other words, the x height is higher than the middle stroke in capital "E" (or "F", "A", etc.). The reason I like this is because code uses mostly lowercase letters (unless you write COBOL), and if you keep the x height classically aligned, the font ends up looking squat and gnarly, like Akkurat. Deja exaggerates the x height by (in display terms, at the point size that I use) two pixels, which evens it out and "fills out" the line height more nicely, making for a more harmonic flow, even though this also means the middle strokes of some capital letters don't line up with the tops of the lowercase letters. (This is not a violation of typography rules, by the way.) Fonts like Akkurat, with classical x heights, look more sparse because lines with only lowercase letters leave more room above the x height, and the difference in height between lower and upper case is more pronounced. Anyway. I agree that Deja's angle brackets are a bit too angled. Akkurat's is better. The problem with Deja's "=" is not the length but the spacing. It has the same spacing issue as Akkurat's "+". However, I categorically reject your criticism of Deja's lower-case "L". It's perfect because it looks precisely like the character L, whereas Akkurat's "l" looks like the number 1. (It's also consistent with the overall shape of the font, matching the arcs in characters such as f and j.) I was jesting about the 0/Ø. I don't care whether there is a center dot or a slash myself. Looked at Liberation, but it's not for me. Too... squished.