Thanks, it wasn't a location problem but this shows me what is happening. What I found by incrementing the font size was the font scales up to a certain point, then no longer shows up after I get past a certain size. Normally, I'm using NSString.sizeWithAttributes in a loop to find the largest font that will fit in my image rect. But, when I draw at that font size the character doesn't show up. The line height is about 69 and my image height is 75. There's plenty of space left and I'd like this one character to be drawn at around that ratio to the height. However, when I use your increment method, I can get all the way up to a font size with a line height of 62 centered as I want before the character will start disappearing. Any clue why?BTW, the largest font size I get up to is 38 if that means anything to you.