diff --git a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/CustomLineHeightSpan.java b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/CustomLineHeightSpan.java
index f12e1d1d083345..403b06cf8382cc 100644
--- a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/CustomLineHeightSpan.java
+++ b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/CustomLineHeightSpan.java
@@ -1,4 +1,11 @@
-// Copyright 2004-present Facebook. All Rights Reserved.
+/**
+ * Copyright (c) 2015-present, Facebook, Inc.
+ * All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * This source code is licensed under the BSD-style license found in the
+ * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree. An additional grant
+ * of patent rights can be found in the PATENTS file in the same directory.
+ */
 
 package com.facebook.react.views.text;
 
@@ -27,16 +34,16 @@ public void chooseHeight(
     // This is more complicated that I wanted it to be. You can find a good explanation of what the
     // FontMetrics mean here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27631736.
     // The general solution is that if there's not enough height to show the full line height, we
-    // will prioritize in this order: ascent, descent, bottom, top
+    // will prioritize in this order: descent, ascent, bottom, top
 
-    if (-fm.ascent > mHeight) {
-      // Show as much ascent as possible
-      fm.top = fm.ascent = -mHeight;
-      fm.bottom = fm.descent = 0;
+    if (fm.descent > mHeight) {
+      // Show as much descent as possible
+      fm.bottom = fm.descent = Math.min(mHeight, fm.descent);
+      fm.top = fm.ascent = 0;
     } else if (-fm.ascent + fm.descent > mHeight) {
-      // Show all ascent, and as much descent as possible
-      fm.top = fm.ascent;
-      fm.bottom = fm.descent = mHeight + fm.ascent;
+      // Show all descent, and as much ascent as possible
+      fm.bottom = fm.descent;
+      fm.top = fm.ascent = -mHeight + fm.descent;
     } else if (-fm.ascent + fm.bottom > mHeight) {
       // Show all ascent, descent, as much bottom as possible
       fm.top = fm.ascent;
@@ -45,10 +52,13 @@ public void chooseHeight(
       // Show all ascent, descent, bottom, as much top as possible
       fm.top = fm.bottom - mHeight;
     } else {
-      // Show proportionally additional ascent and top
+      // Show proportionally additional ascent / top & descent / bottom
       final int additional = mHeight - (-fm.top + fm.bottom);
-      fm.top -= additional;
-      fm.ascent -= additional;
+
+      fm.top -= additional / 2;
+      fm.ascent -= additional / 2;
+      fm.descent += additional / 2;
+      fm.bottom += additional / 2;
     }
   }
-}
+}
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