On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Brandon Harris <bharris@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Was there ever a reference for this? I've always heard/used 150%, but I can't say I remember where that number came from.

I'm not sure what your "this" is. Munaf added 120% to the design guide June 2012, the line-height 1.5em in MW skin code goes back at least to Aryeh Gregore in 2006-10-16. The browser default (line-height: normal in Chromium?) is very tight spacing without it, so most stylesheets override.

On Jun 3, 2013, at 2:06 PM, S Page <spage@wikimedia.org> wrote:

> BTW, https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Design/Typography#Line_spacing used to say:
> "The standard for content line spacing (or line height) is 120% of the type size itself. For example, the line height for 10pt content would be sized at 12pt."
>
> I've struck it out and added a section for Font size

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