Reduce scale of type

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Hey everybody,

I’m currently working on a typeface, and the client has mentioned that they think the font is taking up too much space in their layouts when compared with other fonts set in the same size. The x-height is quite large so there is some truth to their claims. The client likes the forms and doesn’t want to make them visually narrower, they were wondering is there a way to make the forms smaller inside the 1000 upm space.

There’s currently ~1000 glyphs in the character set with multiple weights, so I don’t really want to manually resize. I’m wondering is there a way to globally scale all glyphs in a font without causing spacing / component issue? Or somehow change settings in font info that could reduce it’s scale in a 1000 upm space upon generation.

Thanks, and sorry if this is a naive question, or if I’m phrasing things incorrectly, I’m not a very technical designer.

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could your client be convinced to set the font at a point size smaller? The kind of reduction you are talking about would have the same affect.

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You could just increase the UPM. It is recommended to have it at 1000, but it works fine with other values. Tweak the value, until the customer is happy.

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