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TENDANCES GRAPHIQUES Codex: the journal of typography la Veilleuse Graphique Best Practices of Combining Typefaces design et typo | Typographie et valeurs sémantiques, décryptage des courants graphiques et typographiques fonts, typefaces and all things typographical — I love Typography (ILT) Inconspicuous vertical metrics | i love typography, the typograp by Alec Julien Five? There are generally taken to be five vertical measures of note in type design (from bottom to top): descender, baseline, midline*, caps-height, and ascender. But if you delve into the minutiae of font design, you soon discover that there are a slew of important vertical metrics that aren’t much talked about. In this article, I will take a look at several of these metrics, and how they are used in font design. t-height Take a look at the basic alphabet from the venerable Minion, with the top three measures highlighted across each glyph: You’ll note that the lowercase ‘t’ sticks out like a proverbial sore thumb. The tradition for serif types is, like with Minion, for the crossbar of the ‘t’ to be at the font’s midline line, and for the top stem of the ‘t’ to come up somewhere midway between the midline and the caps-height. Typically, sans serif faces adhere to the same rule, as do slab serifs. Overshoot And typical uppercase overshoots: e-bar height A-bar height And then some

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