diff --git a/include/gint/display.h b/include/gint/display.h
index 1e3fa74..f947a75 100644
--- a/include/gint/display.h
+++ b/include/gint/display.h
@@ -289,10 +289,14 @@ typedef struct
 	/* Number of total glyphs */
 	uint32_t glyph_count;
 
-    /* Character spacing (usually 1) */
-    uint8_t char_spacing;
+	/* Character spacing (usually 1) */
+	uint8_t char_spacing;
+	/* Distance between the y positions for two consecutive lines. This is
+	   an informative metric for text wrapping tools, not used by dtext()
+	   and other standard functions that always write a single line. */
+	uint8_t line_distance;
 
-    uint :24;
+	uint :16;
 
 	struct {
 		/* Unicode point of first character in block */
diff --git a/src/fxconv-metadata.txt b/src/fxconv-metadata.txt
index e9e122e..72c0019 100644
--- a/src/fxconv-metadata.txt
+++ b/src/fxconv-metadata.txt
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ font5x7.png:
   grid.size: 5x7
   grid.padding: 1
   grid.border: 0
+  line-distance: 8
 
 font8x9.png:
   name: gint_font8x9
@@ -15,3 +16,4 @@ font8x9.png:
   grid.border: 0
   proportional: true
   height: 9
+  line-distance: 14