[naet]

That type of font/textbox issue is my #1 gap in modern CSS.

Honestly I'm surprised that it wasn't addressed long ago, seems like such a foundational issue for rendering text.

[spartanatreyu]

Well it's actually the font designers at fault here and not a CSS issue.

See more here: https://tonsky.me/blog/centering/

But so much time is being wasted on developers fine tuning magic numbers that the browsers are extending CSS to automatically fix the font developer's mistakes.