Hi Eva,
I tried doing this initially, however the font that I am using has a large vertical range, e.g. the tail on a P falls considerably lower and an f is very tall. Due to such a high variation in letter heights the image looks very small in proportion to the navigation bar. Hence I want to use the font as text so that the navigation bar isn’t made larger by the bottom and top 1/3 of the font.
I hope that makes sense,
Josh