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Originally Posted by GMcG
Yes. Think of it: You have the dropcap as high as two lines of text and the empty space between them. If you use a bigger font, the margin will be bigger too and so the third line will be moved a little downwards.
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If you mean the body font, then if you specify an explicit line-height for your paragraphs and use relative units for everything, font changes should make basically zero difference. My drop caps do not shift by even a pixel (as best I could tell from a quick visual inspection) when I switch from my own custom font to Georgia, Times, Helvetica, Palatino, and Charon. The only thing that changes is what word gets butt-jointed up against it on the second line.
Now if you allow for overlap (e.g. the top bar of a "T" above the first line of text), then this does not necessarily work if the font for the drop cap
itself changes, simply because that top bar may be at a different relative offset from the baseline, but the layout itself still shouldn't change.