# Text Height?

**URL:** <https://forum.juce.com/t/text-height/3718>\
**Category:** General JUCE discussion\
**Created:** [March 3, 2009, 2:24am UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/text-height/3718 "2009-03-03T02:24:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![igor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dec6dc/32.png) [@igor](https://forum.juce.com/u/igor)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 2:24am UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/text-height/3718/1 "2009-03-03T02:24:27Z")

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Is there a clever way to get the height of a String, akin to calling Font::getStringWidth()?

I’m looking for something that is a little more exact than simply adding the ascent and decent of the whole font.

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**Author:** ![jules](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/41988e/32.png) [@jules](https://forum.juce.com/u/jules)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 10:36am UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/text-height/3718/2 "2009-03-03T10:36:24Z")

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Well, if you really want to measure the exact size of the curves themselves, then you could just turn your text into a path, and get the bounds of the path…