Why is Text Vertically Misaligned when I use a Custom Font?

When changing the font of my axis labels and legend in a figure, my text is always vertically misaligned when I use a specific custom font (Sofia Pro).

See the following two pictures (left: custom font, right: helvetica).

Everything else it the same, and I'm using:

set(gca,'FontName',Font Name)

to change the font. I haven't seen this behaviour with any other fonts.

On other programs such as MS Office, there does not seem to be an issue with the alignment. I'm having this issue in both 2019a and 2020b.

Does anyone know where the issue is or how it could be resolved?

[Jan]

Which custom font are you using?

[MrPowerElectronics]

It is a proprietary font, Sofia Pro (https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/sofia)

[dpb]

Bizzaro stuff like this always raises Q? re: the rendering engine -- what does

get(gcf,'Renderer')

return?

If is 'opengl', see

ogl=opengl('data')

to see info about driver, etc.

If on Windows, see if

opengl software

will change symptoms. If so, try to find updated OpenGL drivers from the graphics hardware vendor's download site.

[MrPowerElectronics]

@dpb Thank you for the suggestions, it was opengl from NVIDIA. However, even changing it to

opengl software

didn't change anything.

Answer 1

[Adam Danz]

It seems that this particular font has caused vertical alignment issues in other systems as well.

• A user in the Figma forum has reported this problem with Sofia Pro (see first link on that page for a depiction)
• A user in StackOverflow has reported this problem with Sofia Pro in Safari
• 4 users on this adobe thread have reported vertical alignment problems with Sofia Pro
• User complains of vertical alignment wiht Sofia Pro in Windows but not Mac (jpgs included)

[MrPowerElectronics]

Thank you for the research and the links, they are very helpful to understand the problem. Hopefully it is fixed soon.

[Jan]

The creator of the font has to fix the problem. Your solution is to choose another font.

[MrPowerElectronics]

Yes, I understand this, I meant hopefully it is fixed soon [by the creator of the font].