Strange vertical offset between normal and bold font

[GerReader]

I'm currently continuing developing my puzzle collection, and I ran into a strange problem.

The example below is a 2x2 grid of the 'solo' (sudoku clone) puzzle.

I want to draw the given fixed clue numbers in bold, and the user filled numbers in normal font.

Worked so far, but the different fonts are drawn with a strange and annoying vertical offset to each other. See the attachment, where I draw red lines to illustrate the problem. Horizontally both are aligned correctly.

I handle bold and normal fonts in completely the same way for drawing, only difference is I load "LiberationSans" or "LiberationSans-Bold".

The characters themselves are drawn all in the same height, both Bold and Normal.

This is the text drawing function:

void ink_draw_text(void *handle, int x, int y, int fonttype, int fontsize,
               int align, int colour, const char *text) {
  ifont *tempfont;
  int sw, sh, flags;
  bool is_bold = (fonttype == FONT_FIXED) || (fonttype == FONT_VARIABLE);
  bool is_mono = (fonttype == FONT_FIXED) || (fonttype == FONT_FIXED_NORMAL);

  tempfont = OpenFont( is_mono && is_bold ? "LiberationMono-Bold" : 
                       is_bold            ? "LiberationSans-Bold" :
                       is_mono            ? "LiberationMono" :
                                            "LiberationSans",
                       fontsize, 0);

  flags = 0x000;
  if (align & ALIGN_VNORMAL) flags |= VALIGN_TOP;
  if (align & ALIGN_VCENTRE) flags |= VALIGN_MIDDLE;
  if (align & ALIGN_HLEFT)   flags |= ALIGN_LEFT;
  if (align & ALIGN_HCENTRE) flags |= ALIGN_CENTER;
  if (align & ALIGN_HRIGHT)  flags |= ALIGN_RIGHT;

  SetFont(tempfont, convertColor(colour));
  sw = StringWidth(text);
  sh = TextRectHeight(sw, text, flags);
  if      (align & ALIGN_VNORMAL) y -= sh;
  else if (align & ALIGN_VCENTRE) y -= sh/2;
  if      (align & ALIGN_HCENTRE) x -= sw/2;
  else if (align & ALIGN_HRIGHT)  x -= sw;

  DrawString(fe->xoffset + x, fe->yoffset + y, text);

  CloseFont(tempfont);
}

I also tried to use DrawTextRect, same offset, no difference.

Any clue what I am doing wrong?

[Skeeve]

I would assume it's the font's fault.

Did you try other fonts?