sIFR letters narrower than original font

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Published on 2009-11-10T13:54:21Z Indexed on 2010/04/09 0:03 UTC
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I am using corporate(expensive) font-family Gotham. The problem i'm having is that the sIFR font is slightly narrower that the original fonts which doesn't do the font justice.

Is there a reason for this? Is there anything i can do about it?

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