Legacy Document
Important: The information in this document is obsolete and should not be used for new development.
Important: The information in this document is obsolete and should not be used for new development.
The Horizontal Header Table
The horizontal header table, with a tag name of'hhea', contains information needed to lay out fonts whose glyphs are written horizontally (either left to right or right to left) across a page. This table contains information that pertains to the font as a whole. Information that pertains to specific glyphs is given in the horizontal metrics table, which is described in the next section "The Horizontal Metrics Table."