Looking for a font that does not drop below the baseline - ie the y in "Danny"

[GlennatENR (Glenn S.)]

I have project that uses names that are on a radius. The names are on the inside edge of a circle. Imagine a circle with “Danny” inside the circle on the bottom. The bottom of the letters need to rest on the baseline but not extend below it. The problem I’m having is the tail of some letters like the y in “Danny” will extend beyond the outside of the radius of the cutout, and all caps doesn’t look quite right. Hope the explanation is clear enough and someone has a solution. Thanks !

[cggorman (Chris)]

Only thing that comes to mind is an “all caps” font. There are probably some specialized fonts with elevated lower case letters, but I don’t have any in my collection of several thousand…

[Dskall (D Kallenberger)]

Best I could find

[PhiLho (Philippe Lhoste)]

Honestly, I can’t think of a way of designing a font without descenders that would look right, except for all caps fonts, and as shown, one mixing small caps and regular caps (often fonts for comics).
If you lift the descenders above the baseline, I feel that it would be uglier than an all caps font. (Some fonts might do that, I am thinking about some 70’s fonts, but the result rarely looks nice.)

[Morrigan]

You’re looking for all caps fonts or 8 bit fonts:

8 Bit Fonts | FontSpace

[Rob_H (Robert Hollis)]

Hi Glenn,
Searching for a font with a particular characteristic is painfull to say the least. All I can offer is a link: Google Fonts preview text=“type”
Open it and start scrolling
cheers,
Rob

[Newlands (Steve Pavey)]

Quite a few here, including lower case styles:
http://www.fontscape.com/explore?8OJ
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You might find you have one or two already installed if you’re lucky, and if you still have any old graphics program discs kicking around they often have a folder of free fonts you could investigate.

edit - I just downloaded Hobo from here

[PhiLho (Philippe Lhoste)]

I was thinking of the Hobo font, reminding those used in the seventies’ posters and disk album covers.
I stand corrected, the font designers are clever and these fonts look decent, even if the solution for the gjpqy letters is almost the same for most of these fonts.

[GlennatENR (Glenn S.)]

Thank you all for your responses ! These are some great suggestions !!!