About the Design Page guidelines

The standard guidelines for creating fonts are shown in the Design Pages. The contents of each of the guidelines are as shown below.

1. Triangle icon

1. Base Line
2. Capital Line
   The font's standard height will be from the Base Line to the Capital Line line. These line cannot be moved.
3. Mean Line
   When in lower case, the standard height of the font will be from the Base Line to this line. It can be moved by dragging the triangle icon on the right edge.
4. Descender Line
   This line is the standard for characters with parts that hang down (descenders) such as "g" and "y". It can be moved by dragging the triangle icon on the right edge.
5. Ascender Line
   This line is the standard for characters with parts that extended above (ascenders) such as the accent mark. It can be moved by dragging the triangle icon on the right edge.
6. Set Line (Left)
7. Set Line (Right)
   This line will be the font width. The font width can be adjusted by dragging the triangle icon on the bottom edge.
   • The heights and widths specified for the [Base Line], [Capital Line] and [Set Lines] are the reference mask for creating the font character.
   • When characters created with Font Creator are imported into Layout & Editing, the width and height of the characters will be in the following area.
     • Character height: from Base Line 1 to Capital Line 2
     • Character width: from Set Line (Left) 6 to Set Line (Right) 7
   • In order to align the height of the characters, the [Ascender Line], [Mean Line] and [Descender Line] appear the same with all characters. Therefore, if the height of any of these lines is changed, the setting is maintained, even when a different character is selected to be edited.
   • The widths of the [Set Lines] can be set separately for each character.