serb/googlefontdirectory

Fira Sans Vertical Metrics IE Problem

GoogleCodeExporter opened this issue · 1 comments

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Use Fira Sans via Google Fonts
2. Compare cross-browser (IE)

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Expected: same line-height or vertical metrics cross browser. Instead: 
additional space below font in Internet Explorer (see attachment).

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
IE 11.0.7 / Win 8.1 64

Please provide any additional information below.
Using another font fixes problem.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by blais.a...@gmail.com on 31 Jan 2015 at 5:16

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You can upload the font to the fontsquirrel.com webfont-generator and then 
download the files to embed them locally. This fixed the problem for me. What's 
also nice is that the font is then thicker in Google Chrome.

Original comment by leu.tho...@livenet.ch on 15 Mar 2015 at 9:57