In typography and penmanship, the baseline is the line upon which most letters "sit" and below which descenders extend.
In the example to the right, the letter 'p' has a descender; the other letters sit on the (red) baseline.
Most, though not all, typefaces are similar in the following ways as regards the baseline:
The vertical distance of the base lines of consecutive lines in a paragraph is also known as line height or leading, although the latter can also refer to the base-line distance minus the font size.
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