R052: line-height below 1.5 on Arabic body text
Fonts without Arabic glyphs, letter-spacing that breaks joined letters, cramped line height, and Latin styling applied to Arabic.
The check
- Id
- R052
- Category
- Typography
- Default severity
- medium
What it looks for
line-height below 1.5 on Arabic body text
How to fix it
Give Arabic body text line-height: 1.6–1.9. Ascenders, descenders, and diacritics need more vertical room than Latin metrics assume.
More typography checks
- R050Arabic text falling back past the declared font family (measured, declared, or a webfont that failed to load)
- R051letter-spacing applied to Arabic text (breaks the connected script)
- R053Arabic body text below 14px
- R054Italic/oblique applied to Arabic text
- R055Latin display styling (uppercase + tracking) applied to Arabic
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