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Originally Posted by theonna
No I am fine with my gourd.
The line height appearance depends on on the specific font. Some of them are just fine with .8 and some look cramped with 1.5. As it is now even with standard Kobo fonts the line height appears at least 30% more than it should.
I've been setting reading preferences on very many reading devices, and believe me there are plenty that look just fine with .8. For some people who read fast and a lot- it helps to maximize the use of the page space- small margins all around, small line height means more reading enjoyment. Again I am suggesting giving people control, so each can choose what is personally more comfortable.
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Sorry but I'll have to disagree with you. Unless you are using a font with an incredible amount of white space around each glyph, a
line-height: 0.8; directive means overlapping the lines by 20% which is very unlikely to look like anything other than crap. As in the sample supplied where the descenders on one line are overlapping the ascenders on the next line, that is what you can expect from using a line-height less than 1. It's not pretty and it's not readable. About the only exception would be using a font with no lower case letters and hence no ascenders or descenders. Unfortunately, all upper case is much less readable than mixed or lower case -- the only reason the original Teletypes used all upper case was a management decision -- "You can't spell God with a lower case g." was the story I heard.
I read fast, I read a lot and I wouldn't care to read such a squashed page unless absolutely forced to. Your choices obviously are different.
Regards,
David