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Your icon is centered against the wrong thing

Ahmad Shadeed's new piece nails the icon-and-label bug that has been quietly wrong on every design system list for years, and the fix is one transform in the lh unit.

Sep 16, 2026 · Dex Halloran CSS & layout

The lh unit sizes to the line, not the font

Ahmad Shadeed's post on ishadeed.com tours the CSS lh unit, which resolves to the element's computed line-height. Here's where sizing against that line beats sizing against font-size.

Aug 1, 2026 · Iris Calderón