the application name is a little lower

[bugcook]

The bold Chrome is lower than the right menu font.

[jenskutilek]

It seems to depend on the actual glyph dimensions in the font. I haven't yet figured out how to influence this position.

[seandellis]

Thanks for putting this together @jenskutilek. I really enjoy Fira.

It seems that the Mac menu bar does not properly read the ascender and descender info. I was able to fix the position in the menu bar by adjusting the ascender and descender of the font. I followed this tutorial.

Unfortunately, it caused the bold weight to sit too high in buttons and anywhere else it was used. I reverted back to the original font since the app name sitting too low was far better than breaking text everywhere else.

[BruceRutland]

Jens

Thank you so much for this - even with the lowered Bold issue is SO much nicer than Helvetica!

best Bruce

[struppek]

Thanks, too, @jenskutilek! FWIW, I re-generated the bold font in TypeTool as .ttf without doing anything else. It's quick and dirty, but seems to have resolved the alignment issue, even while throwing some warnings.

[sardaukar]

@struppek any way you can share the fixed font, please?

[jenskutilek]

I finally was able to fix the alignment issue, please check out the updated versions. The Light font weight (used in Spotlight) has also been added.

[carolaclavo]

Hello! Thank you for the fix and the fonts. In my case I see Apple Mail like this (please note characters baseline is slightly misaligned).

Regards,

Carola

[sardaukar]

I downloaded the fonts again (from the link in the Readme) and I still have this issue EDIT: I had to remove the fonts, logout/in, then copy the fonts over again - now fixed!

[jenskutilek]

I’ve adjusted the vertical metrics again, the badges in Apple Mail look much better now. Please redownload the fonts again ...

[carolaclavo]

Looks perfect now, big thank you again.