[pilotbob]

Originally Posted by wallcraft

See Font Sizes for screenshots of the Kindle. The largest is about 18pt, although Amazon calls it 20pt, see Does the new CyBook support ultra-large fonts (>72 points)? - which includes mockups of 24pt, 36pt, and 48pt on a 6" page.

I'm not really much into typography... but I always wondered this. Is a 12pt fount supposed to produce the same size glyph on a device no matter it's size and resolution? For example, is a 12pt font on a 6inch device the same size as a 12pt font on a 20 inch monitor? Isn't there another way to specify font size, I seem to remember earlier PCs used something other than point sizes... also I think it was the inverse where the bigger the number the smaller the font.

That said, is there any device size independent way to specify a font size whether it be on screen or paper?

Thanks,
BOb