I downloaded a few cursive fonts yesterday and when I try to use them in Word the tops and the bottoms of the loopy letters gets cut off. I tried to change the line spacing, and it worked, but only for the first and last lines of the paragraph.

Any ideas on how to fix this?? Would be super helpful if anyone could solve my problem

No one can help you if you don't tell us which fonts you're talking about.

Wrong vertical metrics (ascender and descender) settings. I gamble it concerns earlier Måns Grebäck fonts. A lot of those had these settings wrong. You need a font editor to solve this problem.

Sorry, the fonts are Signerica and Tamoro script. I have no idea how to work a font editor so I don't think that would be an option at the moment :(

http://www.aringtypeface.com/faq/

I have no idea what I'm looking at My knowledge is very basic of this stuff

Few, I think, will deny that Måns Grebäck makes nice and often quite usable fonts. That is, his font designs look nice but from a technical point of view there is often, too often, something wrong. Or not conforming to the units per em standards, or, often, not setting the vertical metrics correctly. Lately the latter has improved for working with Windows applications. But as you are an apple you are still in trouble.

This is how the ascenders and descenders (cut off at the top respectively at the bottom) are set (on the left) and what the values should be (on the right) for Mac.



The FAQ drf refers to tell you to buy a commercial license to have the imperfections corrected. A negative marketing method imho.

I found a novel solution to a descender problem, earlier this week. The Q in my new font has a long stroke, and a shadow below. The bottom of the shadow was touching the top of certain glyphs on the line of text below it. Through some trial and error, I found that adding 72 units to the descender would create a sufficient gap.

What I did was draw a tiny contour, 72 units below the bottom of the shadow, and Saved, then I recalculated the True Type-specific metrics, without changing the UPM. I then deleted the small contour, and generated the font, and I got the result I wanted.

Not novel, but yes effective. It does not, however, solves Signerica and Tamoro script users when they are apples. Måns Grebäck could but, see earlier posts, denies the problem, alas.

You guys have helped so much already but this is the last question hopefully, how do I even change the ascenders and descenders? Do I have to download something to do that?

As said before, you need a font editor to solve this problem. With such a program you can set/correct the metrics of a font. Try FontForge. I do not use that program but understand that there is a possibility to (re)calculate the values. Metaphasebrothel may be able to tell you how to do this.

The Tamoro Script as here on dafont is free for personal use but also a crippled demo with the numbers hidden. Also that can of course be solved with a font editor but to get the best out of that font you are far better off buying the otf version. With an otf savvy application you get access to all the ligatures which makes this font so attractive.