TTF — Vertical Metrics with a 250-Unit Line Gap
Ascender and descender identical to the agreeing fixture, with 250 units of external leading declared in both lineGap fields. Renderers differ on whether line gap belongs inside the line box, above it, or split — this is the file that shows which one yours does. Original typeface, free to use.
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & ! ? @ # % ( ) — “ ”
12pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
16pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
20pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
28pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
40pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Specifications
- Family
- Novus Grotesk P7 Metrics
- Units Per Em
- 1000
- Cap Height
- 700
- X Height
- 500
- Wave
- p7
- Seed
- 20260807
- Built With
- fontTools 4.x
- Determinism
- head.created/head.modified pinned to 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z, recalcTimestamp off; outlines are parametric, colour material is seeded
- Usage Rights
- original artwork, free for any use
- Hhea
- ascender 800, descender -200, lineGap 250
- Os2 Typo
- sTypoAscender 800, sTypoDescender -200, sTypoLineGap 250
- Os2 Win
- usWinAscent 800, usWinDescent 200
- Default Line Height
- 1250 units = 1.25 em
- External Leading
- 250
Testing contract
Expected to pass- Scenario
- Measure the line box and the baseline-to-baseline distance at 100 px.
- Expected result
- Baseline to baseline is 125 px; whether the extra 25 px sits inside the line box, above it, or half above and half below is the renderer's line-gap policy, and it is visible here rather than inferred.
What is a .ttf file?
TTF (TrueType Font) is a scalable outline font format developed by Apple and Microsoft that uses quadratic Bezier curves and includes hinting for sharp rendering at small sizes. It stores glyph outlines, metrics, and character mappings in a single file. It is one of the most widely supported desktop and web font formats.
How to use this file
Use an example TTF to test font parsers, glyph and metric extraction, text-rendering pipelines, and converters that produce web font formats like WOFF.
How to use this file for testing
“TTF — Vertical Metrics with a 250-Unit Line Gap” is a deterministic Novus Examples fixture for Conversion testing, Metadata testing, Editor testing. The same content exported across many formats and linked as a group, so you can convert one and diff against the expected twin.
Documented properties for this file: seed 20260807. Compare results against paired or grouped companions on this page when present (clean↔damaged, searchable↔scanned, or format twins) so scores stay reproducible across runs.
Download the file once, keep the path stable in CI or local scripts, and treat the spec table as the contract: dimensions, seeds, field lists, and roles are intentional. Corrupt or invalid samples are labelled as such — expect parsers to fail loudly rather than silently accept them.
Font fixtures carry a small documented glyph set across the common wrappers. Test font loaders, subsetting, and @font-face; the specimen preview renders the glyphs the face actually maps.
Code examples
@font-face {
font-family: "Sample";
src: url("NovusMetricsLineGap.ttf");
}
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