Stackable Font Issues

Glyphs
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Hello Everyone,

I have been working on “Stackable fonts” recently. They work wonderfully when they are not contained within a text box in Illustrator. However, when I try stacking text areas I can’t seem to get things to line up vertically. I almost always have to bump the lighter layers down a few pixels. They all seem to line up in Glyphs. Am I missing something?

Here is a screenshot of what I mean:https://www.dropbox.com/s/2t4ku7w1oxtnn25/Screenshot%202014-10-27%2014.48.40.png ?dl=0

Here is the font file: https://www.dropbox.com/s/p4txjj5oig0c374/Lastra-Display-V2.zip?dl=0

Thanks!
Drew

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Please read ‘Raise or lower the first baseline in a text area’ (scroll down a little):
http://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/creating-text.html#manage_the_text_area

By default, AI measures the height of your lowercase d to position the first baseline. If you want to stack text, it is better to set it to something else.