Font Aligning Problems

[kexisse]

Fonts are complex. That "extra space" you see could be the font ascent. See this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typeface#Font_metrics

Kikito is right, there is space above letters in most fonts for the ascenders. You used capital letters, but the ascenders typically rise above capital height.

[Roland_Yonaba]

That's good to know.
Actually isn't it any way to predict how much the ascent will rise depending on the font size one might want to set ?

[Robin]

Depends on the font, so unless and until LÖVE has a way to extract that information from the font, the answer is no.

[the_leg]

All 3 sizes should be aligned along the top of the window, instead there's extra space above them. Is this supposed to happen

For this particular font, there should be some space above the ABC. However, LOVE is adding too much space, from what I can tell. I tracked this down to a line of code in LOVE's print() function in /opengl/Font.cpp):

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if (type == FONT_TRUETYPE) glTranslatef(0, floor(getHeight() / 1.25f + 0.5f), 0);

This is assuming that every font has a maximum ascent of 80% its height. For your font, the max ascent is 60% of its height. The result is the font is printed further down the screen than it should be. Another result is that some fonts will have up to 20% of their outlines drawn above the y position you pass love.graphics.print().

To fix this that line of code should look like this, IMO:

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	if (type == FONT_TRUETYPE) glTranslatef(0, getAscent(), 0);

[kikito]

I think that post belongs in the issue tracker. Good find!