Suppose that one likes the "upright" shape of the font Sabon Next LT Pro
, but prefers the "italic" shape of the font Garamond Premier Pro
over the italic shape of Sabon Next. (Both fonts are Garamond-style fonts, by the way.) Unfortunately, the x-heights of these fonts are quite different, creating some visual unpleasantness when they're typeset side by side.
I know of the option
Scale = MatchLowercase
when loading sans-serif and typewriter fonts via \setsansfont
and \setmonofont
statements; these options serve to scale the sans-serif and typewriter fonts to the x-height of the main text font in use. Unfortunately, there seems to be no (documented) way to set the x-height of an italics text font in the same easy way. Is this impression incorrect?
In short, how should I go about scaling my italics text font to equate its x-height to that of the main (Roman/upright) text font?