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# CTFontOrientation

The intended rendering orientation of the font for obtaining glyph metrics.

```
enum CTFontOrientation
```

## Overview

Use the values of this enumeration for [`kCTFontOrientationAttribute`](/documentation/CoreText/kCTFontOrientationAttribute).

## Topics

### Font Orientations

[`CTFontOrientation.default`](/documentation/CoreText/CTFontOrientation/default)

The native orientation of the font.

[`CTFontOrientation.horizontal`](/documentation/CoreText/CTFontOrientation/horizontal)

The horizontal orientation.

[`CTFontOrientation.vertical`](/documentation/CoreText/CTFontOrientation/vertical)

The vertical orientation.

### Deprecated Constants

[`kCTFontDefaultOrientation`](/documentation/CoreText/CTFontOrientation/kCTFontDefaultOrientation)

The native orientation of the font.

[`kCTFontHorizontalOrientation`](/documentation/CoreText/CTFontOrientation/kCTFontHorizontalOrientation)

The horizontal orientation.

[`kCTFontVerticalOrientation`](/documentation/CoreText/CTFontOrientation/kCTFontVerticalOrientation)

The vertical orientation.

## See Also

[`kCTFontOrientationAttribute`](/documentation/CoreText/kCTFontOrientationAttribute)

The orientation for the glyphs of the font.


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