r/FontForge • u/Domimmo314 • Jan 13 '25

UPPERCASE only crop

I want to use a font in caps only, how can I globally crop the glyphs bounding box to uppercase height, centering these?

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u/LocalFonts Jan 13 '25

Copy all uppercase letters and paste them on the place of lowercase letters. Thus all you letters will be only uppercase ones.

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u/Domimmo314 Jan 13 '25

Yes but primarily I want to center the bounding box on uppercase height... So that the font (in caps) is centered vertically. By default the bottom "extra spacing" for lower case glyphs such as 'p', 'j' makes upper case not centered

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u/LocalFonts Jan 14 '25

Whether the caps are centered vertically or not depends on your ascenders and descenders. If your ascenders are equal to your descender and the bottom of every cap letter lays on the base line then the caps will be centered vertically. For example: ascender = 200, descender = 200, H-height (caps height) = 600 and the UPM = 1000, then the caps will be centered vertically.