kspencer Posted June 3, 2020 Posted June 3, 2020 For some reason my font sizes are much larger than they should be. Even at 5pt, I'm getting something equivalent to a 72pt font. I'm working on an artboard that's 2000px by 1500px and the letters are huge. I'm having to convert to curves and resize every time as a result and it's taking up lots of my time. Quote
Old Bruce Posted June 3, 2020 Posted June 3, 2020 40 minutes ago, kspencer said: I'm working on an artboard that's 2000px by 1500px and the letters are huge. Fonts use points and there are 72 points to an inch. How many pixels are there in an inch in your document. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.6.0 | Affinity Photo 2.6.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.0 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
kspencer Posted June 3, 2020 Author Posted June 3, 2020 Oh boy do I feel sheepish! That was exactly my problem. Thanks for the help Old Bruce. Much appreciated. Cheers, K Quote
spinhead Posted June 21, 2020 Posted June 21, 2020 Similar question, different issue: my fonts are much smaller than expected. I have my doc set at 72dpi and my Helvetica 118pt capital X is 70px wide by 84px tall. This is on a Mac running Catalina using a ViewSonic monitor at 1080p. I'm doing some tricky calcs to script svg files before touch up in Designer, and I'll need to understand what's up with font sizes to make it work. Quote
Old Bruce Posted June 21, 2020 Posted June 21, 2020 1 hour ago, spinhead said: Similar question, different issue: my fonts are much smaller than expected. I have my doc set at 72dpi and my Helvetica 118pt capital X is 70px wide by 84px tall. This is on a Mac running Catalina using a ViewSonic monitor at 1080p. I'm doing some tricky calcs to script svg files before touch up in Designer, and I'll need to understand what's up with font sizes to make it work. You have to realize that an X is not 118 points tall at 118 points. Try measuring "Xy"'s height. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.6.0 | Affinity Photo 2.6.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.0 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
walt.farrell Posted June 21, 2020 Posted June 21, 2020 12 minutes ago, Old Bruce said: You have to realize that an X is not 118 points tall at 118 points. Try measuring "Xy"'s height. In an earlier life while studying calligraphy, I learned that often the capital letters are shorter than the tall lower-case letters. Though that does not seem to be true in some of the fonts I just looked at, it is still true in others. Here's T + l (el) in Candy Round BTN, for example: So just measuring Xy to include the descenders may not suffice, as X may not be the tallest letter. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.5
spinhead Posted June 21, 2020 Posted June 21, 2020 I asked a dumber question once. I don't remember what it was, but I'm sure I did. Then again, maybe not. Yes, a font's actual height is from descender to ascender, and dependent on the designer's whim to some extent. Isolation is messing with my brain. Thanks, folks. walt.farrell and Old Bruce 1 1 Quote
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