Underlines and line height

How to make the distance of link underlines proportional to the line height of the text.

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Okay so a while back, I was dissatisfied with seemingly every infographic I could find about the common terminology of typography variables, so I ended up making this cheat sheet visualization for clarifying them for myself and others. Then I simply forgot to post or use it anywhere and moved on. This was back in *checks notes* ... *checks again* April 2019?! Screw it, here goes, public domain, go nuts, boosts appreciated, you're my type 💌

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🟢⚫️ Fixing Text Clipping in Divs with Overflow Hidden
A Solution for Line-Height Less Than 1.2
by Fabio Ottaviani @supahfunk
On @CodePen
#webdev #webfonts #LineHeight #TextClipping

https://codepen.io/supah/full/RwOyNva

Fixing Text Clipping in Divs with Overflow Hidden: A Solution for Line-Height Less Than 1.2

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⬛️ Line heights in CSS work better with ratios
by Andy Bell @andy
#css #lineheight #webdev

https://andy-bell.co.uk/line-heights-in-css-work-better-with-ratios/

Line heights in CSS work better with ratios

Say you’ve got this CSS and you need to set a nice, compact line height: h1 { font-size: 40px; } You open up the designer’s static design and it says the line height should be 44px. Easy peas…

Andy Bell