: Adobe Illustrator's Type Tool - Incorrect text height Ok, so I've been using Illustrator for years, and this is something I haven't gotten around to figure out.. In my line of work, I need

@Steve758

I suspect illustrator is setting the ascender height to 20mm, and that may or may not correspond to a letter's height.

To clarify: when a type designer makes a font, he/she sets the measurements for ascenders and descenders in the font information. But when they draw the letters, they do not necessarily fill the whole height. And in fact, in most typefaces not all letters are the same height (round letters have overshoot, for example)

So if you want the letters to be an exact height, you'll have to convert to outlines first

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