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fonts, typefaces and all things typographical — I love Typography (ILT) fontsy.com | free fonts | kostenlose Schriftarten | gratuito tipos de fuentes Graphic Design Blog is a blog about general graphic design, lear typomanie | actualités, histoire, théorie, pour tous les amateurs de typographie et les typographes-amateurs… Design is Kinky Thinking with Type | Home Free Fonts Download Typography Daily 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. 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 Looking at the string ‘xoXO’, you might think that there are only three of the standard five vertical metrics in play: baseline, midline, and caps-height. e-bar height

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