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“line length”

The the­ory and the appli­ca­tion of opti­mal line height  —  called lead­ing in typo­graphic cir­cles  —  varies greatly in web design. Typog­ra­phy ref­er­ences con­sis­tently put ideal line height at 1.2 ems (a mea­sure of type equiv­a­lent to the the let­ter height or point size of a type­face). Yet, pre­mier web design­ers (and typog­ra­phy affec­tion­atos) reg­u­larly set line height to 1.5 […]