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| Authored by: Tufty on Saturday, October 27 2012 @ 09:41 PM EDT |
If you do specify the point size and the user changes it then at least you
tried. OTOH if you specify 14 pixels you will get very different results on a
.36mm pixel screen to a .26mm pixel screen. Oh, and for fun I will leave it to
you to find out if a point is really 1/72 of an inch, the answer is interesting
and I have known a big print equipment company baffled by this when their proofs
didn't come out right.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, October 28 2012 @ 03:04 PM EDT |
> The default size of text on the Apple website is 12px with 18px line
spacing.
The style sheet for this "judgement" page specifies 14px font-size
with ~20px line spacing. I say ~ because the line spacing is specified
by the abstraction of 1.48 em. 1em is supposed to be equal to the
fontsize in points, but knowing who is playing games with the numbers
here, and allowing that the specified font Arial also comes from a
mealy mouthed manipulator, ...
On my screen (0.249mm pitch, 102dpi) the line height of the
judgement page text is 4.9mm. I can't measure the x height
accurately. A font size of 14px should render at close to 10pt.
It looks like Apple has assumed a majority of readers
will be using a screen of about 100dpi, and then made some
adjustments that could be argued by graphic designers.
For instance they have used a smaller (10pt) font size than
specified, then increased the leading or line spacing to
improve readability. They have used this trick for years,
fonts like Apple Garamond have a low x-height:point-size ratio.
This is not so successful with high speed litho on newsprint,
and fonts often have a large x-height and lower weight
to give bigger open letters, eg. Poynter Agate.
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