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05-23-2024, 04:51 AM | #78 |
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Why is it that some fonts have to have some letters with a descender that are not supposed to have them such as the letter J?
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05-23-2024, 01:40 PM | #79 | |
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Then we have overshoot which is found on such glyphs as the lower case o where the bowl can extend slightly below the baseline. In other words, Jon, it is a choice by the font designer and you can find examples that are centuries old. There is no carved on a stone slab commandment saying "Thou shall not have descenders on upper case glyphs". Personally, I'm not that fond of them since I've run into crashing descenders where the descender overlaps with the ascender of a character in the next line so the fewer descenders the better for making my work easier. |
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I agree that I am not a fan of descender crashing. OTOH, since even your favoured Charis SIL font has a descender on the capital Q not to mention the usual suspects for the lower case letters (g, j, p, q and y) so there is still a chance of crashing descenders if the line width is set too narrow.
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