vertical metrics

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• Vertical metrics standards

  1.5K views 15 comments 0 points Most recent by Kalapi Gajjar-Bordawekar June 26Type Design Technique & Theory
• Why ascender can't use interline gap, but diacritics can?

  840 views 13 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson October 2025Type Design Technique & Theory
• Drawing quires of a manuscript

  170 views 1 comment 0 points Most recent by michele casanova September 2025Type Design Technique & Theory
• Diacritic marks crashing into descenders and baseline

  677 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by Josh Nychuk April 2024Type Design Technique & Theory
• Should ascenders/descenders match the "Ascender" and "Descender" vertical metric values?

  1.8K views 15 comments 0 points Most recent by PabloImpallari April 2023Type Design Technique & Theory
• Where should diacritics lie within vertical metrics?

  518 views 12 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson February 2021Type Design Technique & Theory
• Don't font vertical metrics ever affect leading in InDesign?

  604 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson December 2019Font Technology
• Vertical Metrics or Scaling within the same UPM and Printed Appearance

  283 views 4 comments 0 points Most recent by Georg Seifert April 2019Type Design Technique & Theory
• Internal leading in vertical metrics. Is it necessary?

  733 views 13 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson March 2019Font Technology
• Vertical Metrics Confusion

  500 views 4 comments 0 points Most recent by AbrahamLee August 2018Font Technology
• Stacked diacritical marks and line spacing.

  185 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by Ray Larabie July 2017Type Design Technique & Theory
• Webfont vertical metrics strategies

  3.4K views 15 comments 4 points Most recent by LeMo aka PatternMan aka Frank E Blokland January 2017Type Design Software
• Alignment Zones

  209 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by Thomas Phinney July 2016Type Design Technique & Theory
• Modify Vertical Spacing

  720 views 7 comments 0 points Most recent by peggo (Pedro González) June 2016Type Design Technique & Theory