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  • Misaligned baseline in InDesign

    In Adobe InDesign, the distance between a text frame’s top and its first baseline is by default decided by the “ascent” value, which is font-dependent. Therefore, different fonts will likely be positioned on different heights.

    You can change this setting by right clicking a text frame and go to “Text Frame Options…” in the menu > “Baseline Options” tab. See Adobe’s official help documentation about this setting (but note its explanation about the “Ascent” option is incorrect):

    Among the options, “Ascent”, “Cap Height”, and “x Height” are font-dependent, while “Leading” and “Fixed” are font-independent and helpful to your case.

    Alternatively, you may want to set a baseline grid for the text frame, which is explained also in the link above, right after the “First baseline offset options” section.