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Originally Posted by pilotbob
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
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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
Bob,
Well, back from my days on the High School Yearbook, I remember that font size actually had a definitive relationship to real world measurements. If I remember correctly, 36pt type was such that a capital letter would be 1" tall.
With a computer never knowing how large a monitor it is going to be connected to, this relationship has gotten fuzzy over the years. But on an ebook reader, where one knows how large the screen will be, it should be easy to scale the letters such that the pt size is connected to the actual screen size seen.
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Bill
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Hi Guys! Back in the day, the HS typing teacher had a font ruler. She used it to demonstrate the difference of the spinning wheel striker thing on those new fangled electric typewriters. With those, all you had to do to change fonts was unsnap the wheel, disentangle the ribbon, re-entangle the ribbon on a new wheel, and then try to get the new wheel snapped back in correctly. No problem is something needed to be bolded - all you had to do was backspace over the word and retype it a few times to make heavy print. Couldn't use that trick with italics, so it better be a good reason to go to all the trouble to switch to the italic wheel.