Reply To: Text Height Measurement

Hi Martin,

I'm afraid that you are making a confusion between the font size ( = the distance from the top of the tallest ascender to the bottom of the longest descender) and the x-size (= the height of the letter “x”), which is obviously inferior to the former.

Try this experiment: set a baseline grid with “increment every” 3 mm and display it, set your font as Myriad Pro 9pt and type “myriad pro” in a text box. You'll see that the lowest part off “y” touches the bottom line and the uppermost part of “d” touches the top line of the baseline grid. (q.e.d.)

Some more technical details here: https://nwalsh.com/comp.fonts/F…..Q/cf_8.htm

Hope this helps,

Manu