diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 3fa9f654b..b40c21502 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
 ### Added
 
+- Added new `lineHeight` property on `SpriteFont` and `Font` to manually adjust the line height when rendering text.
 - Added missing dual of `ex.GraphicsComponent.add()`, you can now `ex.GraphicsComponent.remove(name)`;
 - Added additional options to `ex.Animation.fromSpriteSheetCoordinates()` you can now pass any valid `ex.GraphicOptions` to influence the sprite per frame
   ```typescript
diff --git a/src/engine/Graphics/Font.ts b/src/engine/Graphics/Font.ts
index 61c15cdb3..28b56b0d7 100644
--- a/src/engine/Graphics/Font.ts
+++ b/src/engine/Graphics/Font.ts
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ export class Font extends Graphic implements FontRenderer {
     this.textAlign = options?.textAlign ?? this.textAlign;
     this.baseAlign = options?.baseAlign ?? this.baseAlign;
     this.direction = options?.direction ?? this.direction;
+    this.lineHeight = options?.lineHeight ?? this.lineHeight;
     this.quality = options?.quality ?? this.quality;
     if (options?.shadow) {
       this.shadow = {};
@@ -98,6 +99,10 @@ export class Font extends Graphic implements FontRenderer {
   public textAlign: TextAlign = TextAlign.Left;
   public baseAlign: BaseAlign = BaseAlign.Alphabetic;
   public direction: Direction = Direction.LeftToRight;
+  /**
+   * Font line height in pixels, default line height if unset
+   */
+  public lineHeight: number | undefined = undefined;
   public size: number = 10;
   public shadow: { blur?: number; offset?: Vector; color?: Color } = null;
 
diff --git a/src/engine/Graphics/FontCommon.ts b/src/engine/Graphics/FontCommon.ts
index 3d177dbed..b4d698c3d 100644
--- a/src/engine/Graphics/FontCommon.ts
+++ b/src/engine/Graphics/FontCommon.ts
@@ -147,6 +147,10 @@ export interface FontOptions {
    * Optionally specify the text direction, by default LeftToRight
    */
   direction?: Direction;
+  /**
+   * Optionally override the text line height in pixels, useful for multiline text. If unset will use default.
+   */
+  lineHeight?: number | undefined;
   /**
    * Optionally specify the quality of the text bitmap, it is a multiplier on the size size, by default 2.
    * Higher quality text has a higher memory impact
diff --git a/src/engine/Graphics/FontTextInstance.ts b/src/engine/Graphics/FontTextInstance.ts
index 1b11cb009..5593f732e 100644
--- a/src/engine/Graphics/FontTextInstance.ts
+++ b/src/engine/Graphics/FontTextInstance.ts
@@ -57,11 +57,15 @@ export class FontTextInstance {
   }
 
   private _setDimension(textBounds: BoundingBox, bitmap: CanvasRenderingContext2D) {
+    let lineHeightRatio = 1;
+    if (this.font.lineHeight) {
+      lineHeightRatio = (this.font.lineHeight/this.font.size);
+    }
     // Changing the width and height clears the context properties
     // We double the bitmap width to account for all possible alignment
     // We scale by "quality" so we render text without jaggies
     bitmap.canvas.width = (textBounds.width + this.font.padding * 2) * 2 * this.font.quality;
-    bitmap.canvas.height = (textBounds.height + this.font.padding * 2) * 2 * this.font.quality;
+    bitmap.canvas.height = (textBounds.height + this.font.padding * 2) * 2 * this.font.quality * lineHeightRatio;
   }
 
   public static getHashCode(font: Font, text: string, color?: Color) {
@@ -73,6 +77,7 @@ export class FontTextInstance {
       font.textAlign +
       font.baseAlign +
       font.direction +
+      font.lineHeight +
       JSON.stringify(font.shadow) +
       (font.padding.toString() +
         font.smoothing.toString() +
@@ -187,7 +192,7 @@ export class FontTextInstance {
       this.dimensions = this.measureText(this.text, maxWidth);
       this._setDimension(this.dimensions, this.ctx);
       const lines = this._getLinesFromText(this.text, maxWidth);
-      const lineHeight = this.dimensions.height / lines.length;
+      const lineHeight = this.font.lineHeight ?? this.dimensions.height / lines.length;
 
       // draws the text to the main bitmap
       this._drawText(this.ctx, lines, lineHeight);
@@ -245,12 +250,12 @@ export class FontTextInstance {
    * @param text
    * @param maxWidth
    */
-  private _chachedText: string;
-  private _chachedLines: string[];
+  private _cachedText: string;
+  private _cachedLines: string[];
   private _cachedRenderWidth: number;
   private _getLinesFromText(text: string, maxWidth?: number) {
-    if (this._chachedText === text && this._cachedRenderWidth === maxWidth) {
-      return this._chachedLines;
+    if (this._cachedText === text && this._cachedRenderWidth === maxWidth) {
+      return this._cachedLines;
     }
 
     const lines = text.split('\n');
@@ -275,8 +280,8 @@ export class FontTextInstance {
       }
     }
 
-    this._chachedText = text;
-    this._chachedLines = lines;
+    this._cachedText = text;
+    this._cachedLines = lines;
     this._cachedRenderWidth = maxWidth;
 
     return lines;
diff --git a/src/engine/Graphics/SpriteFont.ts b/src/engine/Graphics/SpriteFont.ts
index b62e5eb06..1189a7cc6 100644
--- a/src/engine/Graphics/SpriteFont.ts
+++ b/src/engine/Graphics/SpriteFont.ts
@@ -22,6 +22,10 @@ export interface SpriteFontOptions {
    * Optionally ignore case in the supplied text;
    */
   caseInsensitive?: boolean;
+  /**
+   * Optionally override the text line height, useful for multiline text. If unset will use default.
+   */
+  lineHeight?: number | undefined;
   /**
    * Optionally adjust the spacing between character sprites
    */
@@ -40,17 +44,19 @@ export class SpriteFont extends Graphic implements FontRenderer {
   public shadow: { offset: Vector } = null;
   public caseInsensitive = false;
   public spacing: number = 0;
+  public lineHeight: number | undefined = undefined;
 
   private _logger = Logger.getInstance();
 
   constructor(options: SpriteFontOptions & GraphicOptions) {
     super(options);
-    const { alphabet, spriteSheet, caseInsensitive, spacing, shadow } = options;
+    const { alphabet, spriteSheet, caseInsensitive, spacing, shadow, lineHeight } = options;
     this.alphabet = alphabet;
     this.spriteSheet = spriteSheet;
     this.caseInsensitive = caseInsensitive ?? this.caseInsensitive;
     this.spacing = spacing ?? this.spacing;
     this.shadow = shadow ?? this.shadow;
+    this.lineHeight = lineHeight ?? this.lineHeight;
   }
 
   private _getCharacterSprites(text: string): Sprite[] {
@@ -109,7 +115,7 @@ export class SpriteFont extends Graphic implements FontRenderer {
         height = Math.max(height, sprite.height);
       }
       xCursor = 0;
-      yCursor += height;
+      yCursor += this.lineHeight ?? height;
     }
   }
 
diff --git a/src/spec/TextSpec.ts b/src/spec/TextSpec.ts
index ffb344da6..a327be1ba 100644
--- a/src/spec/TextSpec.ts
+++ b/src/spec/TextSpec.ts
@@ -444,6 +444,35 @@ describe('A Text Graphic', () => {
     });
   });
 
+  it('can have line height', async () => {
+    const sut = new ex.Text({
+      text: 'green text\nthat has multiple\nlines to it.',
+      color: ex.Color.Green,
+      font: new ex.Font({
+        family: 'Open Sans',
+        size: 18,
+        quality: 1,
+        lineHeight: 36
+      })
+    });
+
+    const canvasElement = document.createElement('canvas');
+    canvasElement.width = 100;
+    canvasElement.height = 100;
+    const ctx = new ex.ExcaliburGraphicsContext2DCanvas({ canvasElement });
+
+    ctx.clear();
+    sut.draw(ctx, 10, 10);
+
+    await runOnWindows(async () => {
+      await expectAsync(canvasElement).toEqualImage('src/spec/images/GraphicsTextSpec/line-height.png');
+    });
+
+    await runOnLinux(async () => {
+      await expectAsync(canvasElement).toEqualImage('src/spec/images/GraphicsTextSpec/line-height-linux.png');
+    });
+  });
+
   it('can have a shadow', async () => {
     const sut = new ex.Text({
       text: 'green text',
@@ -890,6 +919,45 @@ describe('A Text Graphic', () => {
 
       await expectAsync(canvasElement).toEqualImage('src/spec/images/GraphicsTextSpec/spritefont-text.png');
     });
+
+    it('can have a custom lineHeight', async () => {
+      const spriteFontImage = new ex.ImageSource('src/spec/images/GraphicsTextSpec/spritefont.png');
+
+      await spriteFontImage.load();
+
+      const spriteFontSheet = ex.SpriteSheet.fromImageSource({
+        image: spriteFontImage,
+        grid: {
+          rows: 3,
+          columns: 16,
+          spriteWidth: 16,
+          spriteHeight: 16
+        }
+      });
+
+      const spriteFont = new ex.SpriteFont({
+        alphabet: '0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz,!\'&."?- ',
+        caseInsensitive: true,
+        spacing: -5,
+        spriteSheet: spriteFontSheet,
+        lineHeight: 32
+      });
+
+      const sut = new ex.Text({
+        text: '111\n222\n333\n444',
+        font: spriteFont
+      });
+
+      const canvasElement = document.createElement('canvas');
+      canvasElement.width = 200;
+      canvasElement.height = 100;
+      const ctx = new ex.ExcaliburGraphicsContext2DCanvas({ canvasElement });
+
+      ctx.clear();
+      sut.draw(ctx, 0, 0);
+
+      await expectAsync(canvasElement).toEqualImage('src/spec/images/GraphicsTextSpec/sprite-font-line-height.png');
+    });
   });
 
   it('will log warnings when there are issues', async () => {
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