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A webpage for testing typefaces, live at www.impallari.com/testing
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Make line-height a fixed px value #24

Closed davelab6 closed 10 years ago

davelab6 commented 10 years ago

When comparing 2 fonts of 2 families (eg Lohit Devanagari and Ek Mukta Regular on http://www.impallari.com/testing/devatest.php) then the baseline of each line jumps because the 2 fonts have different vertical metrics.

It would be great if there was an option so that the line-height of the page was fixed and that jump didn't happen, so when you toggle the 2 fonts, you can more easily compare the differences

impallari commented 10 years ago

Why would you want to do that? The "baseline jump" is the result of how each font has optimized (or failed to optimize) the vertical space available via the Vertical Metrics configuration. I think it has the same level of importance as the proportions, weight, contrast, of any other design feature. IMHO, It's not a difference one wants to ignore.

davelab6 commented 10 years ago

Well its a right pain to have to go in and mess with the vertical metrics of the fonts to set them the same so I can do a 'toggle compare'

I mean to add this an an OPTION, not to change the default functionality :)

impallari commented 10 years ago

As an option sounds good. Added to the ToDo list