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I want to maintain a consistent “vertical rhythm” for my sites, so I use pixels for both font-size, line-height, and any padding or margin that’s going to introduce vertical space.

FWIW I have found the following two articles helpful:

http://24ways.org/2006/compose-to-a-vertical-rhythm

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/settingtypeontheweb