User Guide

FontLab 4
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PCLT Metrics and Font Description
Width
The appearance width. Select one of the options in the list.
Posture
The slant of the glyphs. Could be upright, italic/oblique or
reversed italic.
Structure
The structure of the glyph’s interior. Select one of the options
in the list.
StrokeWeight Weight of the font. This value is related to the Weight
parameter on the basic names page.
SerifStyle
Style of the glyph’s serifs. This is related to the PANOSE
settings.
Use the Recalc button to calculate values automatically using
information from other pages.
WidthType
PCL appearance width value. Select one of the options in the
list.
Pitch
The width of the space in font units
xHeight The height of the optical line describing the height of the
lowercase x in font units. This might not be the same as the
measured height of the lowercase x.
CapHeight The height of the optical line describing the top of the
uppercase H in font units. This might not be the same as the
measured height of the uppercase H.