All window title bar text *appears* to have lopsided vertical alignment

[xandark]

This is not a "bug" per-se, but a visual issue that has niggled at me since I first began playing with A2D...

The title bar text of windows appear "too high" in their allotted space because there's 3 blank scan lines below the text and only 1 blank scan line above.

Yes, I realize that the 2px descenders of the system font make the font mathematically vertically aligned in the title bar space, but it doesn't appear vertically aligned. There is 98% more white space below the text than above:

Am I the only one who thinks that the title bar text appears to float "too high" in the title bar? I actually prefer the way Catalyst looks in this regard.

What would it look like to have the text offset down 1px?

[inexorabletash]

I dunno... it looks a little awkward to me shifted down a pixel. Not a big surprise, the low vertical resolution of DHGR means lots of compromises.

For posterity:

diff --git a/mgtk/mgtk.s b/mgtk/mgtk.s
index b104858d..3ce98002 100644
--- a/mgtk/mgtk.s
+++ b/mgtk/mgtk.s
@@ -7207,6 +7207,7 @@ .proc DrawWindow
         jsr     FillAndFrameRect
         jsr     CenterTitleText
 
+        inc16   current_penloc_y
         ldax    current_winfo::title
         jsr     DrawText

[xandark]

Thanks for the visual test. That's interesting, so you're saying it looks awkward to you shifted down a pixel? To me it looks more visually faithful as an early Mac reproduction. The amount of negative space above and below the body of the title's text is now even and it feels balanced to my eyes.

I created some side-by-side comparisons based on your screenshot because you have several good titles there. Image on the left is the current A2D style and the right is the 1 pixel shift:

To my eye, in the "Media" and "Vids" window titles, I can see a significant difference from just moving it down one scanline; the title text no longer seems to float high. My background is visual arts, so these details are important to me.

Other projects have dedicated graphic designers to work out GUI pixel stuff, but maybe we could put up a community poll and see what others think?

[inexorabletash]

Informal poll of users on the Slack shows a preference for the tweaked layout. So going with that for now.