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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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36pt should be 1/2" tall. There are 72 points to an inch. Screens normally have a setting that allows you determine the pixels per inch which is often 75 or 96. Pts and pixels are often equated but this need not be so. It can be very confusing and different font families seem to vary this as well. Garramond or whatever it is called seems to be smaller for the same font size. It can be very confusing.