: Adjusting font alignment and size I'm in the middle of picking a font for a rather sizeable project, and we've largely landed on Migrena Grotesque. Unfortunately, the alignment of this font seems
I'm in the middle of picking a font for a rather sizeable project, and we've largely landed on Migrena Grotesque. Unfortunately, the alignment of this font seems to be a lot lower, and the general size is a lot smaller than usual. For vertical centering, I have to manually nudge it up a few bits to get it visually centered, and I have to use it at 18pt for it to visually look the same size as most other fonts at 16pt.
Is there a (hopefully quick) way to fix things like this in the font file itself? Software wise, I have Glyphs 2.
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A little late to the party I am, but here is my opinion:
Font Forge has the option to massively transform the glyphs in the font file, i.e., effect move, scale, rotation, etc. Also, as far as I understand, it also includes modifying appropriately the metrics for the font.
Some fonts just aren't constructed very well.
Or the foundry tends to stick with their standards as opposed to comparing things to other foundries work. I would suspect in this instance this may be the case. The foundry has a few typefaces. So, I'd guess that they all suffer from the same slight variances when compared to type from other foundries. I love small, independent, foundries and try to support them whenever possible. However, what you are describing is my largest "pain point" with using their products.
In these instances all you can really do is deal with the inconsistencies (as you've described), choose another font, or dive in and actually edit the font files directly.
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