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by amelius 3728 days ago
Well, sometimes the UX designer wants to change all the fonts in the interface at once (perhaps to a slightly different font). It is cumbersome to have to reposition all the texts in those cases, because many fonts have their baselines defined in a different way.

At other times, we may want the user to define/select the font, and keep the baselines at the same position.