FontAssetsLineMetrics.md 2.1KB
Line metrics.
TextMesh Pro sets line metrics automatically when you generate a font Asset.
If the generated values produce strange or incorrect results, you can tweak the line metrics settings to fine-tune the font.
Most line metric values are relative to the Baseline, which is the horizontal line that characters sit on.
- Values for above-the-baseline metrics, such as the Ascender height, are greater that the Baseline value.
- Values for below-the-baseline metrics, such as the Descender height, are less than Baseline value.
|Metric:|Function:|
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|Line Height|The distance between the tops of consecutive lines.
If you set the line height to a value greater than the combined size of the Ascender and Descender, it creates a gap between lines.
If you set a line height to a value less than the combined size of the ascender and descender results in potential overlap between characters on different lines.|
|Ascender|The ascender height, which specifies how far characters can extend above the baseline. It corresponds to the top of a line.|
|Cap Height|The height of capital letters from the baseline.|
|Baseline|The baseline height.
The baseline is the horizontal line that characters sit on.|
|Descender|The descender height, which specifies how far characters can extend below the baseline.|
|Underline Offset|The position of underlines relative to the baseline.|
|Strikethrough Offset|The position of strikethrough lines relative to the baseline.|
|Superscript/ Subscript Offset|Adjust the baseline for superscript and subscript text.|
|Super/ Subscript Size|The scale of superscript and subscript text relative to the normal font size.|
|Padding|The amount of padding between characters in the font atlas texture.
TextMesh Pro sets this value when you generate the font Asset. It is not editable.|
|Width/Height|The font atlas texture’s width and height, in pixels.
TextMesh Pro sets these values when you generate the font Asset. They are not editable.|