Font Box Borders

[Ammar]

Hi 

 

You have 2 types of fonts artistic and frame, but both don't make the fonts borders box tight around the font 

as in attachment so I can't align as example bottom edge of font to something else cause the alignment will

be for the box not the text got my point ?

[mac_heibu]

Type "Ammarg" and you' see, that all is correct.

[Lee D]

Hi Ammar,

 

The alignment will go off the bottom of the text and not its frame, just turn Snapping on and you will see  :)

[Alfred]

Hi Ammar,

 

The alignment will go off the bottom of the text and not its frame, just turn Snapping on and you will see  :)

 

The problem with this is that other objects will snap to the very bottom of the text, not the baseline. So they will align to the baseline of a word like "baseline" (ignoring any slight overhang of the bowl of the 'b') but they will align to the bottom of the lowest descender (e.g. the 'g' in "alignment").

[MikeW]

The problem with this is that other objects will snap to the very bottom of the text, not the baseline. So they will align to the baseline of a word like "baseline" (ignoring any slight overhang of the bowl of the 'b') but they will align to the bottom of the lowest descender (e.g. the 'g' in "alignment").

 

True enough. Though the thread is about lining up text frames...

[Alfred]

the thread is about lining up text frames...

 

Well, perhaps. The OP did write:

I can't align as example bottom edge of font to something else cause the alignment will be for the box not the text

[R C-R]

The problem with this is that other objects will snap to the very bottom of the text, not the baseline.

At least on the Mac version, the problem is sometimes another object will snap to the text baseline but other times not. It seems to depend on the size of the bounding box & the snapping options chosen, but not in any way obvious to me. Sometimes, I can get an object to snap to some or even all of the font metrics, other times only one or two of them.

[Ammar]

I think design wise the alignment should be to the baseline even if there's a "g" :) , so how to do that this is one thing, and how to make the frame around the word only not having extra space or height is another question we want clear answer for both.

[Ammar]

Type "Ammarg" and you' see, that all is correct.

But what if I don't have g in the word ?

[R C-R]

I think design wise the alignment should be to the baseline even if there's a "g" :) , so how to do that this is one thing ...

Like I said, in the Mac versions of the Affinity products, sometimes objects will snap to text baselines. Other times they will snap to descender heights, or to the bounding box dimensions, or to some combination of all of these. There just doesn't seem to be a lot of consistency about it.