What is the ideal distance between labels? It depends on styles for both of them and the dynamic type size, right? You wouldn't want to have the same distance for small and large text sizes. We can configure a standard distance between baselines.
Day 123
Space label baselines for Dynamic Type
18 Sep 2022
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