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Vertical metrics for central text positioning

Open davelab6 opened this issue 3 years ago • 6 comments

https://twitter.com/aaronbell/status/1598084126170812416

davelab6 avatar Dec 04 '22 00:12 davelab6

That's actually supported by the BASE table's centerline baseline already. Let me find it in CSS verbo.

behdad avatar Dec 04 '22 17:12 behdad

https://www.w3.org/TR/css-inline-3/#central-baseline

behdad avatar Dec 04 '22 17:12 behdad

Humm. Maybe not. IMO it should work though.

behdad avatar Dec 04 '22 17:12 behdad

cc @jfkthame

behdad avatar Dec 04 '22 17:12 behdad

I spoke to @dberlow today and he mentioned that the v metrics in OpenType are static font technology, and with a VF, across the design space, the v metrics are mostly inappropriate. Is MVAR a way to make different sets of metrics appropriate to eg each optical size, weight and width?

davelab6 avatar Dec 12 '22 18:12 davelab6

Adjusting v metrics across the designspace is one of the main reasons for the existence of MVAR. See this tweet for an animation of variable sxHeight and yStrikeoutPosition in Source Serif 4.

https://twitter.com/axis_praxis/status/1579469985130643456

Lorp avatar Dec 12 '22 19:12 Lorp