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It is a known issue that will be fixed with the next upcoming major release.

TypoAscender and TypoDescender are calculated as described in the tutorial and should give a good indication what is best related to the outlines in the font.

Line gap is a best guess, so feel free to change it to your liking.

Windows decides what to show based on the Unicode Character Range settings on the Ranges tab. I don't think there is a public document that explains what settings work, so do some experiments, but be aware some applications might rely on these settings.

Thank you I have read the vertical line spacing tips you suggested. I thought I understood the basic consepts of it but when I added up the typo ascender and descenders and with or without the line gap I could not get arial or times or Calibri to add up to 2048. They don't have to be 2048. Also the...

I've made an even smaller font, 440 bytes! It is still valid in Windows 10, but it will no longer work in a web browser (Firefox). So the above 540 bytes font is still the smallest font known today, that works in both Windows (Windows 10) and Web browsers (Microsoft Edge, Firefox).

I don't know the answer to your question, but maybe other people can give advice if you provide some screenshots.

The tutorial about Vertical Line Spacing might help you with setting correct values for your font.

I'm sorry, but It didn't make it into version 12. It is still high on the to-do list, but so are a dozen other features. If more people request this enhancement, it is more likely we'll add it. Right now we're working a new major release for MainType. After that we'll go back to the upcoming FontCre...

The glyph transform wizard includes a Position feature which allows you to align glyph outlines.

There are some forum posts with similar questions. Do search for contextual substitutions.

You can't do it with version 8. You need to upgrade to the latest version. It also comes with many more improvements, bug fixes, and enhancements.

See our upgrade page for more information.

It the end the result counts

For all editions.

You can change the values within FontCreator 12, as shown here:

I'm sorry about the inconvenience, but the only way to move on is to force FontCreator to end, and then start all over again. This used to be an issue a decade a go, but it seems there is still an issue here. We can only try to fix it, if you're able to reproduce it, and that is probably not going t...

Please show us a screenshot so we better understand how you're using the font manager.