Artistic Text Alignment issue (ascenders and descenders)

[nonresidentalien]

Hi y'all,

Again, probably a niche issue but when working with small artistic text labels, it happens that text may not contain ascenders or descenders. Aligning these texts is tricky as Designer will take the borders and is not aware of the base line of the font.

Here are the same texts aligned middle,  top and bottom:

 

[Move Along People]

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[h_d]

1 hour ago, haakoo said:

Snapping to guides works in AFdesigner (beta Win) on the textual baseline

And in OSX Catalina. Pull down a guide, snap the baseline, not the bounding box.