Font::...dingBox(3pm)

💖 NAME 💖

Font::FreeType::BoundingBox — it's literally a structure that holds an outline's bounding box, bestie. That's it. That's the whole vibe. 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

okay so here's the whole thing in action, no cap:

use Font::FreeType;

my $freetype = Font::FreeType->new;
my $face = $freetype->face('Vera.ttf');
my ($x_min, $y_min, $x_max, $y_max) =
    ($face->x_min, $face->y_min, $face->x_max, $face->y_max);

slay. look at those four little values just sitting there. 👑

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So. A structure used to hold an outline's bounding box — i.e. (iykyk) the coordinates of its extrema in the horizontal and vertical directions. Basically the little rectangle that your glyph lives inside, and we're grabbing its furthest-out points in both directions. 📐✨

The bounding box is specified with the coordinates of the lower left and the upper right corner. And in PostScript, those values are often called (llx,lly) and (urx,ury) respectively — so if you see those names floating around, that's the same thing, just a different era of the group chat. 💅

Okay so about y_min: if it's negative, this value gives the glyph's descender. Otherwise, the glyph doesn't descend below the baseline. Like, no dipping below the line, bestie. 🙈

Similarly — and this is the matching energy — if y_max is positive, this value gives the glyph's ascender. ⬆️

And x_min gives the horizontal distance from the glyph's origin to the left edge of the glyph's bounding box. If x_min is negative, the glyph extends to the left of the origin. so it's giving... overhang. main character energy going off the left side of the page. 😭💀

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🌸 METHODS 🌸

just the four, the iconic quartet, the ones from the synopsis:

• x_min — the horizontal distance from the glyph's origin to the left edge of the bounding box; negative means the glyph extends to the left of the origin. 🫶
• y_min — negative gives the glyph's descender; otherwise the glyph doesn't descend below the baseline. 🍓
• x_max — the other horizontal extreme, upper right corner flavour. 🌈
• y_max — positive gives the glyph's ascender. ⭐

💀 heads up bestie: the page lists these four methods and nothing else — no extra params, no surprise defaults. what you see is what you get, fr fr.

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🧚 and that's the whole page, periodt. this little gem is perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-08-19, shipped along with the rest of the User Contributed Perl Documentation — mwah, go read your fonts' outlines responsibly 💜🌟