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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.
(see Figure 5-9 here) |
Interesting. Perhaps this shows why there is some difference in opinion in this thread as to what makes a reasonable line-height. My font testing has been limited to those displayed on my PRS-300.