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bettergui / BeVietnam

public repo for the Be Vietnam typeface project
SIL Open Font License 1.1
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Descender and ascender issues #2

Open diegomath opened 5 years ago

diegomath commented 5 years ago

Hi, I loved this font family. I'm trying to use it in a web interface but I found something frustrating. Descender and ascender lines are too different. It will be so difficult to make the handoff to developers.

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There are too much space in acender line, making labels difficult to centralize in html.

I hope you could fix it soon,

Congrats and regards,

Diego

djmtype commented 4 years ago

Exactly my thoughts and experience. I love this font but it sits way too low inside its block. Therefore, it appears visually off and can't be used.

yellow-type-foundry commented 4 years ago

@diegomath @djmtype Hi guys, thank you for considering beVietnam for your design. Our design team did notice about this strange error and have been working to resolve it, I believe the upcoming release will fix this issue, as well as fixing some other issues like letterform & kerning.

djmtype commented 3 years ago

I'm revisiting this issue. It's been awhile. First off. There's nothing wrong with this font. It seems like the issue is with Google's fonts metrics. I'm not a typeface designer, so I don't know what the right tech terms here. Anyway, the line-height was off in every app (like Figma and Sketch) and website.

I had the same issue with Prodigy Sans. Because of its license, I was able to run it through the FontSquirrel.com generator with custom settings, then choosing "Auto-Adjust Vertical Metrics." That "fixed" Prodigy Sans. I tried the same settings with BeVietnam, however, the x-height still sits vertically off-center on the baseline. The way to "fix" this is by playing with the vertical metrics. Although, I don't know the magic offset numbers for ascender and descender in this case.

I think they are based on the Em Square value? If that's the case, what is the EM square value for this particular typeface?

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