<div class="container">
  <div id="water">
    <h1 id="water-txt">water</h1>
  </div>
  <p id="sub-text">Only half of people in Africa<br>have safe water.</p>
</div>

@import "compass/css3";

html {
  font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
  background: #231F20;
  color: #FFFFFF;
}

.container {
  height: 200px;
  width: 700px;
  margin: 5em auto;
  position: relative;
}


#water {
  overflow: hidden; // Added this for FF because adjusting font-size was breaking the box! WTF!
  height: 200px;
  width: 700px;
  position: relative;
  /*outline: 1px solid white;*/ // uncomment to test the weird!
}


#water-txt {
  position: absolute;
  top: -100px;
  font-size: 12em; // Adjusting font-size does weird stuff with the box on FF! comment out overflow on #water to see what I mean
  line-height: 1;
 
  &::after {
    content: "";
    display: block;
    height: 80px;
    width: 700px;
    /*outline: 1px solid gold;*/ // Uncomment to test weirdness!
    position: absolute;
    bottom: 0;
    left: 0;
    background: #231F20;
  }
}


// Nothing here is being weird anymore
// so we're G2G!
#sub-text {
  position: absolute;
  top: 270px;
  right: 100px;
  @include transform(rotate(90deg));
  font-size: .875em;
  letter-spacing: 2px;
  text-transform: uppercase;
}

// http://abduzeedo.com/minimal-typography-inspiration