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Old 05-06-2013, 05:04 PM   #55
JSWolf
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Originally Posted by m00min View Post
As someone said earlier in this thread, 1.2 is pretty much a default or common setting for most fonts. For most people it will make the text more legible to be set to 1.2 rather than 1.0. The only time I'd consider using 1em for text is on titles or short bits of text (maybe links on websites). I think you're an edge case in preferring it for reading large quantities of text.
1.2em is too large a line height. It is not a default. 1em is actually the default (if there is one).

Don't use 1.2em. It's too big.
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