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Raleway font adding additional padding to the top of text on Windows only

I'm using the Raleway font provided by Google's Web Fonts and I have found that on my Windows 7 machine (tested with IE9, Firefox, Chrome, Safari) that addtional padding appears to be added to the top of text. When I check it out on my Mac (tested with Firefox, Chrome, Safari) it's fine. If I pick a different font from Google's Web Fonts, it's fine (at least with the ones I checked out). Has anyone else ever come across this and know of a way I can fix it?

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html lang="en">
    <head>
        <meta charset="utf-8" />

        <title><?php bloginfo('name'); ?> - <?php bloginfo('description'); ?></title>

        <link href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
        <link href="http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Raleway:100&v1" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">

        <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.1/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    </head>
    <body>
        <p class="test">
            Hello World
        </p>
    </body>
</html>

CSS

body,div,dl,dt,dd,ul,ol,li,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,pre,code,form,fieldset,legend,input,textarea,p,blockquote,th,td{margin:0;padding:0;}table{border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0;}fieldset,img{border:0;}address,caption,cite,code,dfn,em,strong,th,var{font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;}li{list-style:none;}caption,th{text-align:left;}h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6{font-size:100%;font-weight:normal;}q:before,q:after{content:'';}abbr,acronym{border:0;font-variant:normal;}sup{vertical-align:text-top;}sub{vertical-align:text-bottom;}input,textarea,select{font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-weight:inherit;}input,textarea,select{*font-size:100%;}legend{color:#000;}

body {
    font-size: 62.5%;
}

.test {
    font-family: 'Raleway', sans-serif;
    font-size: 4em;
    text-transform: lowercase;
    font-weight: normal;
    font-style: normal;
    background: rgb(0,0,0);
    background: rgba(0,0,0,0.5);
      color: #fff;
}

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Solution

  • Jarads solution of adding a line height of 0.8 and bottom padding of 8px resolved the issue in IE9 but did not resolve the issue in every other browser. Therefore I create an IE only CSS with Jarads solution and everything is OK now.