Font-size, line-height and line boxes

Introductory text.

font - serif show span hide span (default or standard font set in your browser settings)

Georgia - aspect of 0.481 - normal line-height of 1.137-1.148 show span hide span

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line-height (normal) normal | 1.14 FF, IE9, Opera & WebKit

Times New Roman - aspect of 0.448 - normal line-height of 1.151-1.164 show span hide span

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line-height (normal) normal | 1.14 Opera | 1.15 IE9 | 1.17 FF | 1.18 WebKit

FreeSerif - aspect of 0.45 ? - normal line-height of (For Unix users and fallback serif font "Times New Roman" on Windows) show span hide span

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line-height (normal) normal | Opera, IE9, FF & WebKit ?

Lucida Bright - aspect of 0.53 - normal line-height of 1.179 show span hide span

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line-height (normal) normal | 1.14 Opera - 1.179 IE9 - 1.19 FF & WebKit

Garamond - aspect of 0.386 - normal line-height of 1.125 show span hide span

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line-height (normal) normal | 1.12 Opera | 1.125 IE9 & WebKit | 1.14 FF

MS Mincho - aspect of 0.449 - normal line-height of 1.000-1.203 show span hide span

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line-height (normal) normal | 1 IE9, Opera, WebKit | 1.01 FF

Intruction to install Ahem font are found here.

Ahem - aspect of 0.80 - normal line-height of 1.200-1.008 (reqires Ahem font installed) show span hide span

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• Code Style: Serif font survey results for the most common serif fonts
• Code Style: Sans serif font survey results for the most common sans serif fonts
• Normal line-height, plot versus font-size
• Display installed fonts, compute aspect value
• Normal line-height and Aspect values
• Revealing experiments on content box height, vertical-align and line-height - Gérard Talbot
• Inconspicuous Vertical Metrics
• The origins of abc

• Text (Directory)