Embedded padding/margin in fonts

Question

It seems that all fonts have some sort of embedded padding or margin. By setting:

margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;

You never get what you want. D

Answer 1

You can do it with line-height

I know it's not too common in HTML5, and is more HTML4.1, but...

and if it's really that important:

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