freetypy.TT_OS2

class freetypy.TT_OS2

Information about the TrueType font, used on OS/2 and Microsoft Windows.

Note that we now support old Mac fonts which do not include an OS/2 table. In this case, the version field is always set to 0xFFFF.

Attributes

break_char	This is the Unicode encoding of the glyph that Windows uses as the break character.
cap_height	This metric specifies the distance between the baseline and the approximate height of uppercase letters measured in font units.
default_char	Whenever a request is made for a character that is not in the font, Windows provides this default character.
family_class	Classifies a font design as to its appearance.
family_subclass	Classifies a font design as to its appearance.
first_char_index	The minimum Unicode index in this font.
last_char_index	The maximum Unicode index in this font.
max_context	The maximum length of a target glyph context for any feature in this font.
panose	The PANOSE classification number.
selection	A TT_FS_SELECTION bitflag.
type	FSTYPE bitflags indicating the licensing restrictions on a font.
typo_ascender	The typographic ascender for this font.
typo_descender	The typographic descender for this font.
typo_line_gap	The typographic line gap for this font.
vend_id	Indentifies the font vendor.
version	The version of the TT_OS2 table.
weight_class	A TT_WEIGHT_CLASS value.
width_class	A TT_WIDTH_CLASS value.
win_ascent	The ascender metric for Windows.
win_descent	The descender metric for Windows.
x_avg_char_width	Specifies the arithmetic average of the advance width of all of the 26 lowercase letters of the Latin alphabet and the space character.
x_height	This metric specifies the distance between the baseline and the approximate height of non-ascending lowercase letters measured in font units.
y_strikeout_position	The width of the strikeout line.
y_strikeout_size	The size of the strikeout line.
y_subscript_x_offset	Specifies a font designer’s recommended horizontal offset for subscript characters.
y_subscript_x_size	Maps to the em square size of the font being used for a subscript.
y_subscript_y_offset	Specifies a font designer’s recommended vertical offset from the character baseline to the character baseline for subscript characters associated with this font.
y_subscript_y_size	Maps to the emHeight of the font being used for a subscript.
y_superscript_x_offset	Specifies a font designer’s recommended horizontal offset for the superscript characters associated with this font.
y_superscript_x_size	Maps to the em square size of the font being used for a subscript.
y_superscript_y_offset	Specifies a font designer’s recommended vertical offset for superscript characeters.
y_superscript_y_size	Maps to the emHeight of the font being used for a subscript.