Please add an option to align text frames by the actual letterforms instead of the font’s bounding box.

InDesign currently uses the em-box and sidebearings, which means misaligned text when trying to align separate text boxes that contain different styles or type sizes. This makes precise alignment for headings/subheads really frustrating.

Illustrator already allows bounding boxes that hug glyphs more tightly, so it feels like a big gap in InDesign.

Proposed solution: Add a toggle or context menu option (e.g. “Snap Bounding Box to Text” or “Align to Glyph Edges”) so users can switch between:

Align to Frame (current behavior)

Align to Glyph Edges (new option)

This would save huge amounts of time and eliminate clunky workarounds like converting text to outlines, using proxy rectangles, or constantly drawing new guides and nudging objects.