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For instance, in Chrome, the h1 element has a default font-size of 2em - which is larger than the 18px on your span element. If the h1 element's font-size is smaller than 18px by default, the overall height of your h1 element will be 25px .

Use the line-height property in CSS to do so. Browsers by default will create a certain amount of space between lines to ensure that the text is easily readable. For example, for 12-point type, a browser will place about 1 point of vertical space between lines.

Charter is based on Pierre-Simon Fournier's characters, originating from the 18th century. Classified by Bitstream as a transitional-serif typeface (Bitstream Transitional 801), it also has features of a slab-serif typeface and is often classified as such.

Specialty. Charter is among the best free fonts out there, that is still not overused. A lovely compact, slightly squarish and elegant slab serif designed by a legend in type design.

Line-height can be set in px , em 's, every unit will fit. line-height works best and future proof if you use a factor/multiplier, meaning no unit, but only a number that is multiplying your font-size.

It takes the font-size value and multiplies it by 1.2 . Let's calculate the height of one line with the following example. We just have to do the following calculation: 16 * 1.5 = 24px. So we now know that our text will have a minimum height of 24px.

Line-height: 1.5 (without units) will mutiply the element's font size by 1.5 to compute the line height. line-height: 150% will take 150% of the element's computed font size to compute the line height, which is equivalent to multiply it by 1.5 .