2025: Posts tagged #font

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Jen Simmons is putting a spotlight on the overlooked lh unit with her article Polishing your typography with line height units. It makes a big difference!

Line height units give us a direct way to tie any size in our layout to the vertical rhythm of the text.

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I like to apply it in a flow css class to set the space between direct siblings:

.flow > * + * {
    margin-block-start: 1em; /* fallback for browsers not supporting the lh unit */
    margin-block-start: 1lh;
}
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Modular Scale is a simple, quick, and free tool by Scott Kellum and Tim Brown to calculate and visualize different type scales.