Font Rendering / Line-Height Issue on Mac/PC (outside of element)

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The Design

The info widgets content should be vertically aligned in the middle as such:

Original PSD Design


The Coded Design

Windows: Chrome 20 / FF 14 / IE 9

Windows Coded Design

Mac (Lion / Mt. Lion): Chrome / FF

Mac Coded Design


The Code

HTML

<div class="info">
    <div class="weather display clearfix">
        <div class="icon"><img src="imgs/icons/thunderstorms.png" align="Thunderstorms" /></div>

        <div class="fl">
            <p class="temperature">82&deg; / 89&deg;</p>
            <p class="conditions">Thunderstorms</p>
        </div>
    </div>
    <div class="time display">
        <p>11:59 <span>AM</span></p>
    </div>
    <div class="date display clearfix">
        <p class="number fl">23</p>
        <p class="month-day fl">Jun <br />Sat</p>
    </div>
</div><!-- //.info -->

CSS

.info {
    display:table;
    border-spacing:20px 0;
    margin-right:-20px;
    padding:6px 0 0;
}
    .display {
        background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, .2);
        border-radius:10px;
        -ms-border-radius:10px;
        color:#fff;
        font-family:"Cutive", Arial, sans-serif;
        display:table-cell;
        height:70px;
        vertical-align:middle;
        padding:3px 15px 0;
    }
        .display p {padding:0;line-height:1em;}
        .time, .date {padding-top:5px;}
            .time p, .date .number {font-size:35px;}
            .time span, .display .month-day, .conditions {
                font-size:14px;
                text-transform:uppercase;
                font-family:"Maven Pro", Arial, sans-serif;
                line-height:1.15em;
                font-weight:500;
            }
            .display .month-day {padding-left:5px;}
            .icon {float:left;padding:0 12px 0 0}
            .display .temperature {font-size:24px;padding:4px 0 0;}
            .display .conditions {text-transform:none;padding:2px 0 0;}
    .lt-ie9 .display { /* IE rgba Fallback */
        background:transparent;
        filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr=#20ffffff,endColorstr=#20ffffff);
        zoom:1;
    } 

The Issue

Looking at the above images of the coded design you can see how the appears to throw off the alignment. Upon further viewing, the text is being rendered outside of the element on the mac.

Windows

Windows Coded Design Alignment

Mac

Mac Coded Design Alignment


Note

I am embedding the fonts through a Google Web Fonts stylesheet.


Tested

I have tried the following:

  • Set line-heights on every element.
  • Set font-weights on every element.
  • Set heights on every element.
  • A combination of height/padding-top on every element.
  • Used percentages/em/px for padding.

It seems that no matter what I try, the content will never center align perfectly across mac and pc.


My Question(s)

It is possible to achieve what I'm trying to do in a simplistic manner?

Should I forgo the display:table-cell; route and set specific heights/paddings on each element and child? I will still run into padding/spacing issues between the two OS's.

What should I categorize this issue under? Line-height? Table-cells? OS? etc...

Thanks in advance!

11 Answers

I think using this website https://transfonter.org/ will save your time instead of downloading FontForg program, upload your fonts and toggle "Fix vertical metrics" then click convert, it will give you a downloadable zip folder with all types you selected enter image description here

For those who can't use Font Squirrel, I can confirm that this problem could be fixed in Font Forge for the font I was working with. Based on the answer provided by Luke, here are the steps I followed (no new information here, just providing easy-to-follow instructions):

1) Install FontForge (free) Download from: https://fontforge.github.io/

2) Open the problematic font in FontForge

3) Choose Element > Font Info enter image description here

4) On the left panel, click OS/2, then click the Metrics tab

5) Change Win Ascent to the same number as HHead Ascent, and Win Descent to the POSITIVE value of HHead Descent (i.e., remove minus sign), then click OK. (If those numbers don't address the problem, try adjusting them until you find numbers that fix the issue for your specific font.) enter image description here

6) Click File > Generate Fonts. Choose the font type for your font. If the font is an .otf font, choose OpenType (CFF). Uncheck "Validate Before Saving". Set a name for your new font file. Click Generate. enter image description here

Thanks to everyone who contributed answers to this question!

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