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descender

The bottom y-coordinate, offset from the baseline, of the font’s longest descender.

Declaration

var descender: CGFloat { get }

Discussion

The descender value is measured in points. This value may be positive or negative. For example, if the longest descender extends 2 points below the baseline, this method returns -2.0 . For an explanation of how this metric relates to a font’s other metrics, see UIFont.

See Also

Getting Font Metrics