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Should ascenders/descenders match the "Ascender" and "Descender" vertical metric values?
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Kris Sowersby
February 17
Technique and Theory
What's the rectangle surrounding a font glyph, including its sidebearings, called?
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Most recent by
Ray Larabie
June 2022
Technique and Theory
Vertical metrics strategy for optical sizes
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Most recent by
Nick Shinn
September 2021
Technique and Theory
Font with extremely tall ascenders/descenders in multiline text in Adobe applications
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Most recent by
André G. Isaak
September 2021
Technique and Theory
Letter-fitting and spacing research
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Most recent by
John Hudson
May 2021
Technique and Theory
The default line height in OSX fontbook
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Jonny Gibson
May 2020
Technique and Theory
Fonts won't upload to Myfonts - vertical metrics issues?
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Most recent by
Thomas Phinney
December 2019
Font Technology
How short can ascenders go?
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Eris Alar
January 2019
Technique and Theory
Relationship between left side bearing and contour coordinates (TTX/FontTools)
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Most recent by
Jens Kutilek
November 2018
Font Technology
Vertical Metrics Confusion
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Most recent by
AbrahamLee
August 2018
Font Technology
Create metric-equivalent font
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Most recent by
Dave Crossland
July 2018
Font Technology
What the s... – looking for something to hold onto while drawing a stencil 's'.
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Most recent by
Matthijs Sluiter
July 2018
Lettering Critiques
Spacing in the Cyrillic glyphs of PT Sans and Source Sans Pro
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Most recent by
Stefan Peev
August 2017
Technique and Theory
Modify Vertical Spacing
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7
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Most recent by
peggo (Pedro González)
June 2016
Technique and Theory
Ascender & descenders in Latin type design
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Most recent by
Kent Lew
June 2016
Technique and Theory
The legend of Eisenhower’s Skinny 'S'
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3
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Most recent by
Nick Shinn
June 2016
History of Typography
Em Alignments and Vertical Space?
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20
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Most recent by
Wes Adams
May 2016
Technique and Theory
Different width of ellipse?
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6
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Most recent by
Nick Shinn
February 2016
History of Typography
Leaving Room Above And Below the Baseline for Later Expansion Of A Font - But how much?
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Most recent by
Jeff Kellem
October 2015
Technique and Theory
Mission Impossible
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Most recent by
Choz Cunningham
July 2015
Type Design Critiques
Rounded Stem Values / Kerning Values
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Most recent by
Chris Lozos
February 2015
Technique and Theory
Vertical metrics help for Yosemite font replacement
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Started by
Kemie Guaida
November 2014
Type Design Software
Merging 2 fonts.. issues!
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Started by
Mike Anderson
February 2014
Type Design Software
Asymmetric spacing of italic sidebearings
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7
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Most recent by
Max Phillips
August 2013
Technique and Theory
Should expert features have the same metrics as default?
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Most recent by
Thomas Phinney
July 2013
Technique and Theory
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