Actually this font alignment might be by design. Some time ago I read an article about Youtube's logo alignment. Unfortunately I cannot find it right now, but I found another quick article about optical center.
Yes, it actually might be by design. But I doubt that it is always better to have it lower or higher. The article you shared also says that mathematically centered text or logos look a little bit low. That would mean that we should align them higher, not lower?
This is why I think all fonts should be centered mathematically and later offset by css-rules etc.
The question is, which one would happen more often:
using mathematically centered font and offsetting it
using font with offset and doing nothing with css
Because as a developer, I wouldn't be happy if designer told me to offset every single text. I know I can make a few rules to cover most cases, but why would I, if I can use font that doesn't need that?
Even mathematically-centered becomes "interesting", when decenders come into play. Though I do agree that ultimately such adjustments should be up to type setting, not type design.
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Actually this font alignment might be by design. Some time ago I read an article about Youtube's logo alignment. Unfortunately I cannot find it right now, but I found another quick article about optical center.
thesignchef.com/article/how-to-a-d...
Here you can see, how this button would look perfectly centered mathematically, for comparison
Yes, it actually might be by design. But I doubt that it is always better to have it lower or higher. The article you shared also says that mathematically centered text or logos look a little bit low. That would mean that we should align them higher, not lower?
This is why I think all fonts should be centered mathematically and later offset by css-rules etc.
The question is, which one would happen more often:
Because as a developer, I wouldn't be happy if designer told me to offset every single text. I know I can make a few rules to cover most cases, but why would I, if I can use font that doesn't need that?
Even mathematically-centered becomes "interesting", when decenders come into play. Though I do agree that ultimately such adjustments should be up to type setting, not type design.