Ben Lapidus

Leading vs. Leading

Did you know that "leading" - as in the space between lines of text - is pronounced like led-ing? Not leed-ing!

The origin is from lead (the metal) strips that were used to space out lines of text on old-school printing presses.

I have been pronouncing it incorrectly for years. Any Tailwind users will know -- leading-{x} is in like every text- sizing and I very often am setting the line-height for something or other.

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