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2. Traditional point-size names - Wikipedia

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   Fonts originally consisted of a set of moveable type letterpunches purchased from a type foundry. As early as 1600, the sizes of these types—their "bodies" [ 1 ] —acquired traditional names in English, French, German, and Dutch, usually from their principal early uses. [ 2 ]

3. Point (typography) - Wikipedia

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   The DTP point is defined as 1 ⁄ 72 of an inch (0.3528 mm) and, as with earlier American point sizes, is considered to be 1 ⁄ 12 of a pica. In metal type, the point size of the font describes the height of the metal body on which the typeface's characters were cast.

4. Pica (typography) - Wikipedia

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   As books are most often printed with proportional fonts, cpp of a given font is usually a fractional number. For example, an 11-point font (like Helvetica ) may have 2.4 cpp, [ 5 ] [ 6 ] thus a 5-inch (30-pica) line of a usual octavo-sized (6×8 in) book page would contain around 72 characters (including spaces).

5. Line length - Wikipedia

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   The measure is the number of characters per line in a column of text. Using CSS to set the width of a box to 66ch fixes the measure to about 66 characters per line regardless of the text size as the ch unit is defined as the width of the glyph 0 (zero, the Unicode character U+0030) in the element's font. [10]

6. Em (typography) - Wikipedia

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   The actual, physical height of any given portion of the font depends on the user-defined DPI setting, current element font-size, and the particular font being used. To make style rules that depend only on the default font size, another unit was developed: the rem. The rem «rem Unite», or root-em, is the font size of the root element of the ...

7. How the Size of a Rug Can Make or Break Your Dining Room - AOL

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   From the type of table to room dimensions, see what makes a difference. ... If you have a small space, measure the room size and adjust your dining table and rug accordingly. There’s no rule ...