About a week ago I was excited to learn that Windows now seems to support CALT and Kerning. But there are issues I wondered if y’all might have some insight into. Attached is examples of my font getting cut off I couldn’t circle all of them but there are many more than I circled in red. My glyphs do not go past winascent and windescent. Windows has some glitches the most annoying is the cutting off of fonts in List view…and it’s only List view. Details view… all seem to work fine.
I’ve tried changing font size to no avail. The problem occurs no matter how big or small I make the font. I’ve scoured the internet but there seems to be no solution so I thought I turn to some experts.
Thanks
Disable the “Include vertical spacing…” check box, as that is not relevant for your font.
Click the Calculate button within the Spacing area. If that doesn’t solve the issue, you might need to downsize your glyph outlines, or increase the upem.
Thanks Erwin for your reply and help. I tried the calculate and turned off the vertical spacing option to no avail. Forgive my ignorance but could you tell me what UPEM is?
It seems that windows doesn’t allow for any modification that I’m aware of the font size working with it because even the default font, Segoe, cuts off if changed to anything above 9 point.
Does anyone know more about this?
I have tried scaling down my own font using FontCreator Scaling but that did not work either.
A bit frustrating but there are far worse things in life.
I think I’ve figured out how Windows treats foreign fonts. Windows seems to never have been intended to use anything but Segoe at 9 to 10 points (in List View). It is more pliable with most other views. I’m using Winaero Tweaker to change different compartments of windows. List view is the strictest facet. And the rules behind how List View works is not user friendly. Long story short and a lot of trial and error, a glyph height from top to bottom can only be approximately 2500 points. I squeezed in 2523 points without my largest glyph getting cut off. In other words, my properties for win ascent is 1868 and win descent is -655. I give each glyph a few points buffer from the win ascent and descent for safety.
