I found another example of text that could use a little more breathing room. Recd.us is a site listing posts found by bloggers. It works similar to Digg, but articles are blog articles only. Text problem? It’s vertically squished.
Keeping your site tight is important to avoid excessive vertical and horizontal scroll. In this case, it just seemed a little pack vertically. A common problem for webmasters is creating divisions between content. For Recd.us I believe all it needs it just a little white space. Besides creating a top or bottom margin for content, you can also give your text a little more room by controlling the line height.
Example of controlling line height in your style sheet:
p       {line-height: 1.35em;}
You can also control line height by pixels, but the best way to define this and font size is by EM.
On a side note, I was having fun looking at the articles posted on this site. Apparently politics are a hot topic for its members, because Bush was the number one tag. There was also a funny one with Ghetto Prom Pictures worth a look.
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