Embedded padding/margin in fonts

Question

It seems that all fonts have some sort of embedded padding or margin. By setting:

margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;

You never get what you want. D

Answer 1

The fonts itself has problems it seems. CSS can be used as shown above to solve the problem but still it should be said that it is better in your scenario to fix up the font files itself.

Check out this page as it will give you better insight on how to edit a font: http://mashable.com/2011/11/17/free-font-creation-tools/