Hi Kevin-really love these. Quick question about the 1000 unit boundary-looking at your ascender height, won't your diacritcs come out over the upper bound? I.e. be larger than 1000 units? And is this OK?
Hi Ulrik, great question. In regards to the diacritics landing near the ascender height, yes, some diacritics for the capital letters will land outside the top boundary, and this is usually ok. Technically, we can have any PostScript outline falling outside the glyph boundary, but we have to think about how that decision would effect other glyphs in text. in almost any typesetting situation, there will be leading placed between the glyphs which buffer them, and there would not be a situation of clashing diacritics and letters between lines. One thing you can do is design your metric grid so that there is more space at the ascender area, and have the decenders touch the bottom of the 1000u grid. This way you leave more space for the top-lying diacritics, of which there are more of in the Latin script.
Very helpful! Thank you so much!
You're welcome, and I'm glad you find these videos helpful!
Hi Kevin-really love these. Quick question about the 1000 unit boundary-looking at your ascender height, won't your diacritcs come out over the upper bound? I.e. be larger than 1000 units? And is this OK?
Hi Ulrik, great question. In regards to the diacritics landing near the ascender height, yes, some diacritics for the capital letters will land outside the top boundary, and this is usually ok. Technically, we can have any PostScript outline falling outside the glyph boundary, but we have to think about how that decision would effect other glyphs in text. in almost any typesetting situation, there will be leading placed between the glyphs which buffer them, and there would not be a situation of clashing diacritics and letters between lines. One thing you can do is design your metric grid so that there is more space at the ascender area, and have the decenders touch the bottom of the 1000u grid. This way you leave more space for the top-lying diacritics, of which there are more of in the Latin script.
@@kevinking74 ah thanks! Makes sense! Again thank you so much for these tutorials! Super useful!
@@Isabelswire Awesome! And I am glad you find the videos very useful :)
still very very actual in middle 2022