Heights are different on WOFF from TT

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I’m setting up some icons and I’d like the final font to be square. When I use UPM of 1024 in Glyphs2 and set my font size to be 8em I get a final WOFF and TT font that says 128x154. But using Glyphs Mini and the same settings I get a 128x154 TT and 128x128 WOFF. Which is ‘right’ and where does that extra height come from?

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That depends on the OS and app you use it in and your settings, in this case the CSS you are using.

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this depends on the vertical metrics settings. The defaults are to add 20% to the vertical spacing to make the lines fit. In your case, you need to overwrite this: https://www.glyphsapp.com/tutorials/vertical-metrics

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Thanks Georg! I followed the instructions in the article for the Webfont strategy and compared a default (no custom params) vs. square (with my custom params). Works great!! Thanks for all the great articles too.