A card is a stack, not four numbers written down

The atlas row set its type off the card's width and then placed that type at
fixed offsets: the name at 16, the numbers at 31, the difficulty marks at 36,
the meter thirteen units up from the bottom. Those constants describe a
72-unit card, and a card is only 72 units tall at one size. Its height is
clamped — between 46 and 72 in two columns, never under 52 in one — while its
width follows the screen and is clamped by nothing. So a wide short card asked
for four lines cut for a tall one and printed them on top of each other: at
400x700 the meter ran straight through the marks, and at 1280x430 it ran
through the numbers as well, with STEPS and STAGE meeting in the middle from
opposite ends of the same line.

Every one of those offsets now follows from the card. The four lines each claim
the height of the type or the marks they are made of, what is left over is the
air between them shared out evenly and then capped, and the whole stack is
centred. The marks keep their slot on a card that has none, so a played set and
an unplayed one still line their names up. The type takes the smaller of what
the width allows and what the height can hold. The meter is what its caption
leaves after measuring it, rather than a fixed seventy-two units that
AT THE CEILING never fitted beside; the marks and the end stops are cut from
the same unit as the type; and the two halves of the numbers line are measured
against each other instead of both running to the full column.

The faces change with it. Tiny5 for display and DM Mono for everything read
rather than announced, which is why Face is now Display and Text rather than
two weights of one family: Tiny5 ships a single weight, and a bitmap face at
fourteen pixels cannot hold a bold convincingly anyway. Tiny5 is cut on the
same eight-pixel em Silkscreen was and with the same five-pixel capital, so
nothing that was placed by a cap height moved. Cap height is now something
typeface.gleam knows rather than something the painters assume, since that is
the measurement a stack of capitals is actually built on.

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Dami <dami.etoile@gmail.com>