On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Brandon Harris bharris@wikimedia.orgwrote:
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_s... 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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