Brother PE-DESIGN NEXT Instruction Manual

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Font Creator Window
About the Design Page 
guidelines
The standard guidelines for creating fonts are 
shown in the Design Pages. The contents of each of 
the guidelines are as shown below.
(A) Base Line
(B) Capital Line
The font’s standard height will be from the 
Base Line to the Capital Line line. These line 
cannot be moved.
(C) Mean Line
When in lower case, the standard height of the 
font will be from the Base Line to this line. It 
can be moved by dragging the triangle icon on 
the right edge.
(D) Descender Line
This line is the standard for characters with 
parts that hang down (descenders) such as 
“g” and “y”. It can be moved by dragging the 
triangle icon on the right edge.
(E) Ascender Line
This line is the standard for characters with 
parts that extended above (ascenders) such 
as the accent mark. It can be moved by 
dragging the triangle icon on the right edge.
(F/G) Set Line
This line will be the font width. The font width 
can be adjusted by dragging the triangle icon 
on the bottom edge.
(E) Ascender Line
(B) Capital Line
(C) Mean Line
(A) Base Line
(D) Descender Line
(G) Set Line
(F) Set Line
Triangle icon
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Memo:
• The heights and widths specified for the 
Base LineCapital Line and Set Lines are 
the reference mask for creating the font 
character.
• When characters created with Font Creator 
are imported into Layout & Editing, the 
width and height of the characters will be in 
the following area.
• Character height: from Base Line (A) to 
Capital Line (B)
• Character width: from Set Line (F) to 
Set Line (G)
• In order to align the height of the characters, 
the Ascender LineMean Line and 
Descender Line appear the same with all 
characters. Therefore, if the height of any of 
these lines is changed, the setting is 
maintained, even when a different character 
is selected to be edited.
• The widths of the Set Lines can be set 
separately for each character.
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