Sent by Michael Adams on 7 November 2008 00:12
On Thu, 06 Nov 2008 12:44:08 +0100
Came this utterance fomulated by Gunlaug Sørtun to my mailbox:
[snip]
> Line-height defaults differ slightly, so it often makes sense to level
> them with a mid-range value that makes reading easy, and that helps
> with styling of other in-text elements we may use.
>
[snip]
>From my learning, i think leading or line height should also vary with
the x-height of the preferred font. Verdana, with its huge x-height
(0.58), at a line-height of 1.3 can still look crowded to many, yet this
is a perfectly acceptable line-height for a font like Times New Roman
(0.46). I am not touting the suitability of Times New Roman over Verdana
here, merely using them as illustrative.
Roll on better browser support for font-size-adjust (and for me a simple
linux utility for reading font x-height values from the font, if one
exists).
--
Michael
All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall
be well
- Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416
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