Re: Vertically Centered Colon
Re: Vertically Centered Colon
- Subject: Re: Vertically Centered Colon
- From: Alastair Houghton <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2016 16:07:49 +0000
On 1 Dec 2016, at 15:57, Alex Zavatone <email@hidden> wrote:
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> If we are able to do it right, then we don't have to worry about waiting for it or aren't put behind an 8 ball if Apple decides to pull the rug out from under us if it decides to change the feature (which happens).
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> With these features in text styling, we have all the metrics that we need and as long as the font we want to use supports what we want, these features can be implemented without waiting for someone else to do it for us.
Up to a point. Sometimes there is special support in a font for some particular feature, which will provide better results than naïvely moving or scaling a glyph. A case in point is small caps; you can simulate small caps by using capitals from a smaller point size, but doing so will affect the weight of the strokes. Dedicated small caps support tends to look a lot better — the stroke weight will match, but also sometimes changes are made to the glyphs to better fit into the available space and/or to better align with other characters in the font.
Vertically centring a colon is towards the simpler end of things and should be doable “by hand”, though there might still be gotchas with some fonts (e.g. where digits are not the same height as capital letters or where “old style” digits are in use).
Kind regards,
Alastair.
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