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Linespacing & Leading

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Lline spacing should be 120–145% of the point size.

Linespacing, or leading, like wordspacing, and letterspacing, can be used to improve readability. Your choice of typeface, type, size,line length, and copy will all affect the amount of line spacing. With so many factors involved, you can see why proper line spacing is more a matter of visual judgment than of mathematics

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Linespacing, or leading, like word spacing, and letter spacing, can be used to improve readability. Your choice of typeface, type, size,line length, and copy will all affect the amount of linespacing. With so many factors involved, you can see why proper linespacing is more a matter of visual judgment than of mathematics.

KERNING should always be turned on.

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