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Originally Posted by Jellby
Unfortunately, that's very much font-dependent (meaning that for some fonts 1.2 will be "too much" and for others it will be "not enough"). It depends on how the different glyphs (letters) are drawn in the containing block. Some fonts have containing block very well adjusted to the glyph shapes, some fonts have lots of white space in the containing block, some fonts have large parts of the glyphs outside the containing block... There's no fixed solution for every font.
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Agreed.
Most time I don't specify a line height.
In a few font cases, I have to specify 1.2 as the default space seems overly (screen) wasteful of space
The only other time I use it, is when I mix fonts on a line and the inherited space prevailes (probably due to bad coding on my part)