LibreOffice: Fonts, page color, and the magic number
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The fact that fonts define the look of a document is obvious. What may be less known is that fonts determine the structure as well. In fact, almost every important part of the layout is determined by your choice of fonts. That may seem like an exaggeration, but it is true all the same.
A document's selection of fonts determines the line spacing in the document, and line spacing is the main factor in a page's color or the darkness of the text. Once you have the page color, the line spacing that provides it becomes the magic number for setting up the rest of a document's structure.
However, before you can make such decisions, you need to know more about fonts in general, including where to get them, how they are classified, and how they work in LibreOffice in particular.
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