Typophile

Non-appearing descenders

Emilie Rigaud

Hi everybody,
I have a major problem with my (already quite short) descenders: they don't appear on screen! It seems to be a hinting problem, but I tried the auto-hinting in fontlab and a manual basic hinting (even worst), the alignement zones are set, and still I have nothing under the baseline (the commas do strange things as well... oh wait, the g is ok)
Another typeface I am working on works fine on screen, without hinting and with completely screwed up zones, and I couldn't find any difference in the font infos.

Does someone have a idea?

John Hudson

PostScript or TrueType? Is the problem size-specific? What ppem sizes are affected?

Feel free to send me a VFB to check: tiro[at]tiro[dot]com

Emilie Rigaud

Thanks for answering!
It is a TrueType and the problem is not size specific, I have to zoom in a lot to see the descenders appearing. The only solution I found is to copy-paste the whole font in a new empty file and re-import the classes & co, there must be a strange hidden value somewhere...

James Montalbano

Vertical metrics?

Bendy

Sounds like the descender values are not right...I'm no expert but check the values in the font info box.

John Hudson

If the g is displaying correctly, that implies something other than vertical metrics. Puzzling, to say the least.

Mark Simonson

I would check the alignment zones. I ran into a font once that had really strange values for these that displayed similar peculiarities, and that was the cause.

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