How to align asterisks in vertical center

You can reduce the font size of *s.
Asterisk: 14

Numbers: 18

This doesn’t seems to be a good solution. Is there any way to it without reducing the size.

I am following a tutorial and He is using Macbook and I’m using Windows PC

Do you think is that a windows specific issue.

Here is the video:
https ://youtu.be/csQuTVCdOF8?t=541

Thanks Galeb