Vertical alignment a bit off overall

[hgranholm]

Hello!

I hate to complain, because this is AWESOME. Thank you for saving my eyes.

But anyway: the vertical alignment in places is a tiny bit off in places. For example: too low in window titles & system menu. Too high in Safari & Finder tabs and safari URL box. I'm talking about one non-retina pixel here, but hey I think we are in fine-tuning territory already :-P

I realise this might be difficult to fix, but you know, it is reported now :-) Harri

[lmartins]

+1 on this one. Loving Fira so far, but what put's a bit off about is those exact misalignments @hgranholm refers to.

[kopischke]

+1 here too: there are still some baseline alignment issues between sizes and weights. Very visible in the Mail.app column display (subtitle baseline):

[MrAlexWeber]

Not sure if this should be a separate issue, but it seems to be the same one—vertical alignment is off in Notifications. Attaching some screenshots to illustrate the point. Here you can see the Messages notification looks correct, while Facebook's appears to have a blank line above. Here's another example:

PS - I'm on 10.10.2, in case it matters.

[miloshadzic]

I think this is a general issue with Fira.

[alexkrolick]

Fira does have some unusual line heights relative to other types, but I have heard of alignment issues occurring in the same places when replacing the system font with e.g., San Francisco.

[jenskutilek]

I think the UI is just very finely tuned to the specific metrics of Helvetica, so it can’t fit in all places when using a different font. At least I don’t have any idea how to fix the remaining issues without breaking other things ...

[Midar]

The misalignments are especially bad if you show the battery percentage in the menu bar. All in all, the whole menu bar looks completely off. Same for tabs and the URL bar in Safari. Or all buttons in general. The text always has too much spacing on the bottom and umlauts like Ü almost hit the line above, which looks very wrong when a menu entry with an Ü is highlighted (the dots of the Ü are almost in the row above!). On the other hand, this edit box here right now has all text glued to the bottom and a lot of spacing on the top. Both misalignments looks extremely wrong on both, Retina and non-Retina. It's so bad that this is actually causing me to not use the font, even though the font itself looks really nice. But having vertical spacing completely broken drives me nuts.

[NetOpWibby]

The usual misalignment I used to see prior to the El Capitan-ready version, is gone. Everyone else should upgrade and check it out too.

[hgranholm]

This is great news—thanks for the heads up! I think I'll wait a couple of days for the El Capitan 1.0 release first though :-)

The new Apple font is of course a huge improvement, but Fira is still better. The shape is closer to Fira, so maybe this is the reason why it now aligns better?

[jenskutilek]

This is fixed in the El Capitan branch, won't fix for Yosemite (because I don't know how).

[hgranholm]

Cheers :-)