Ascender / Descender / Cap Height

tonsky / FiraCode

Free monospaced font with programming ligatures

SIL Open Font License 1.1

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Ascender / Descender / Cap Height #1583

Open eikowagenknecht opened 5 months ago

eikowagenknecht commented 5 months ago

Since you're suggesting in your blog article on centering (https://tonsky.me/blog/centering/) that all font designers should make sure to set the metrics so that ascender - cap-height = descender, I was wondering if your own font will switch to this as well.

Currently it seems that it does not fulfill this requirement:

Ascender 1800
Descender -600
Cap Height 1377

cormullion commented 5 months ago

Useful background information here:

https://glyphsapp.com/learn/vertical-metrics

tonsky commented 5 months ago

Yes I plan to