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davidfor · 12-28-2012, 12:30 AM

I'm with the other David on this one. 1.2 or 120% is about right. Anything smaller tends to mean the lines aren't distinct. And at 1.0 or 100%, the letters will touch on the fonts I tried. From memory, the definition of the line height means they should touch.

There was discussion on this a while ago. In a "tweaks" thread I think. You can edit a conf file on the device to set it to 1.2 or edit the settings in the content_settings file. And the actual minimum is 1.225. At least that is the smallest number I tried that made a difference. I could see a difference between 1.225 and 1.25 but not between 1.225 and 1.2.

Having said that, if I was specifying this, I think I would have gone with a range from 1.0 to 2.0 in steps of 0.1. Maybe I would start with 0.9.

12-28-2012, 12:30 AM	#6
davidfor Grand Sorcerer Posts: 24,907 Karma: 47303748 Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Sydney, Australia Device: Kobo:Touch,Glo, AuraH2O, GloHD,AuraONE, ClaraHD, Libra H2O; tolinoepos	I'm with the other David on this one. 1.2 or 120% is about right. Anything smaller tends to mean the lines aren't distinct. And at 1.0 or 100%, the letters will touch on the fonts I tried. From memory, the definition of the line height means they should touch. There was discussion on this a while ago. In a "tweaks" thread I think. You can edit a conf file on the device to set it to 1.2 or edit the settings in the content_settings file. And the actual minimum is 1.225. At least that is the smallest number I tried that made a difference. I could see a difference between 1.225 and 1.25 but not between 1.225 and 1.2. Having said that, if I was specifying this, I think I would have gone with a range from 1.0 to 2.0 in steps of 0.1. Maybe I would start with 0.9.