Deep Dive CSS: Font Metrics, Line-Height and Vertical-Align - Vincent De Oliveira

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• Full Title: Deep Dive CSS: Font Metrics, Line-Height and Vertical-Align - Vincent De Oliveira
• URL: https://iamvdo.me/en/blog/css-font-metrics-line-height-and-vertical-align

Highlights

(thankfully, em is based on font-size, not computed height)

That being said, it breaks down the popular belief that line-height is the distance between baselines. In CSS, it is not 3.