Something interesting at the Telegraph website. Not all of the letters are great, but there are some gems.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/picture-galleries/5757548/The-Goog...
Typophile
The Google Maps alphabet UK: an A to Z of the British Isles
A thread on "object alphabets" I started a while back.
Sorry, I didn't notice that.
That image must be the x-height, Mili :-)
ChrisL
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