Added one new note on the subject of vertical centering that comes up quite a bit:pic.twitter.com/XjMR1mh5sr
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Added one new note on the subject of vertical centering that comes up quite a bit:pic.twitter.com/XjMR1mh5sr
Updated with a clarification about the use of useTypoMetrics flag, thanks to input from @aaronbell and others.pic.twitter.com/2TvuYDZSPm
Mmmmm… Saturday Twitter came early. 
Awww yesss!
Speaking of... Any type design functionality / tools on the books for Figma? 
Out of interest, why did you pick the hhea values to always be primary? Two main issues that I see: 1) it ignores a foundry’s decision to set the useTypoMetrics flag (or not). There could be a reason why winAscent/Descent is better than usTypo for a given font.
Introducing that flag, like introducing any other flag late in the game, was an incredibly silly idea. (Entertaining type designers with how to define data that application developers would ignore anyway – including those working for the company that had introduced it.)
2) depending on the font, the hhea values are sometimes ‘hacked’ to align with the winAscent and winDescent values (this enables cross-platform consistency). usTypo is a more consistent way to get ‘typographic’ metrics.
I am not sure. This decision predates my arrival at Figma by many years. :·)
I’ve always wodnered whether people know they should load webfonts into figma since often Desktop fonts and Webfonts might have different metrics
How do you mean? Can you explain “loading web fonts into Figma”?
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