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2. Pica (typography) - Wikipedia

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   Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) defined by the World Wide Web Consortium use pc as the abbreviation for pica (1 ⁄ 6 of an inch), and pt for point (1 ⁄ 72 of an inch). [3] The pica is also used in measuring the font capacity and is applied in the process of copyfitting. [4] The font length is measured there by the number of characters per pica ...

3. List of typefaces included with Microsoft Windows - Wikipedia

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   Typeface Family Spacing Weights/Styles Target script Included from Can be installed on Example image Aharoni [6]: Sans Serif: Proportional: Bold: Hebrew: XP, Vista

4. Point (typography) - Wikipedia

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   In typography, the point is the smallest unit of measure. It is used for measuring font size, leading, and other items on a printed page. The size of the point has varied throughout printing's history. Since the 18th century, the size of a point has been between 0.18 and 0.4 millimeters.

5. Typeface - Wikipedia

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   Diagram of a cast metal sort.a face, b body or shank, c point size, 1 shoulder, 2 nick, 3 groove, 4 foot.. In professional typography, [a] the term typeface is not interchangeable with the word font (originally "fount" in British English, and pronounced "font"), because the term font has historically been defined as a given alphabet and its associated characters in a single size.

6. Typographic unit - Wikipedia

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   The traditional typographic units are based either on non-metric units, or on odd multiples (such as 35 ⁄ 83) of a metric unit.There are no specifically metric units for this particular purpose, although there is a DIN standard sometimes used in German publishing, which measures type sizes in multiples of 0.25 mm, and proponents of the metrication of typography generally recommend the use of ...

7. Google Fonts - Wikipedia

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   Google Fonts (formerly known as Google Web Fonts) is a computer font and web font service owned by Google. This includes free and open source font families, an interactive web directory for browsing the library, and APIs for using the fonts via CSS [ 2 ] and Android . [ 3 ]

8. Pitch (typewriter) - Wikipedia

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   The most widespread fonts in typewriters are 10 and 12 pitch, called Pica and Elite, respectively. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Both fonts have the same x-height , yielding six lines per vertical inch. [ 3 ] There may be other font styles with various width: condensed or compressed (17–20 cpi), italic or bold (10 pitch), enlarged (5–8 cpi), and so on.

9. Type design - Wikipedia

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   Categories of weight include hairline, thin, extra light, light, book, regular/medium, semibold, bold, black/heavy, and extra black/ultra. Variable fonts are computer fonts that are able to store and make use of a continuous range of weight (and size) variants of a single typeface.