The font height boundaries are a critical and fundamental part of fonts. They are unsigned Win Ascent and unsigned Win Descent. When rendered, the values will be rounded (half away from zero) to get … (View Post)
Indeed 1000 units per em is not suitable for every single font out there, and using more units per em (therefore, a smaller unit size than 0.001 em) would result in more precision necessary for the … (View Post)
"But what happens if there is a serif at the bottom, and in particular, if the serif is as large as in, say, Courier?" In this case the serif ceases to function as a serif (especially in sa… (View Post)