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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 [...]