Some users have been confused about the “font height” option in CC, and why text doesn’t quite match the font height entered. We’ve laid out all of the problems with fonts so I won’t rehash it here but in implementing the Text-on-arc feature we ended up with the thought of scaling fonts to the height of a “T”, since that should be fairly constant.
We could also look at doing that for regular text as well, which would scale all fonts so that the “T” is the same height as the “font height”. There’s no right or wrong answer so we’d be curious to know what you think.
Not sure what you mean by “Arced” - “Non-arced”, perhaps comparing “T” to “O” ?
but fonts are not consistent. The designer makes a choice as to how they want to draw the letters relative to the base height. One designer might use base height as a max, where another might use it as the height of the average lower case letter.
using capital “T” is arbitrary, but a “happy medium” and should get you close. There will always be some adjusting if you’re shooting for an exact size.
When you place text on an arc, you have the option to put it on top or bottom of the arc. If you put it on the bottom then we have to offset it by the height of the font to try and make everything line up if you have text on the top and bottom. (You’d have to play with it, I’m not sure how to describe it well)
We figured out that the best distance to offset the bottom text by happened to be the height of a T.
I was referring to straight-line text (current release functionality) and the new beta functionality of entering text on an arc. Sorry for the backwards references to the text.
It makes sense that there may need to be some adjustment to text height and spacing between the letters, depending on whether the text is placed inside or outside of the arc - I didn’t fully consider some of those challenges (e.g. text inside the end of an oval) in my comment.