[thelist] Font Sizes: Online Picture Examples of Points, Pixels, Picas.. ?

[Freda Lockert]

There are some comparisons here of 12 point fonts on Win and Mac platforms:

http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/pages/font_face.html

Picas are a measure of length (line lengths, indents, stuff like 
that, not type size, 6 picas=1"). Font foundries display their faces 
as images in sizes large enough to show the differences in the 
details that a typographer (like me!) wants to see, not in a variety 
of sizes.

Tip: If creating text in Photoshop or ImageReady, turn off fractional 
widths for all text below about 24px; trying to squeeze curved type 
into square pixels=fuzzy images.

Nice to have your graphic designer working with you instead of 
presenting you with a fait accompli - "hey! code that!"

Cheers.
Freda



>I am looking for online examples of font sizes to show a graphic artist I am
>working with.
>
>Does anyone know a link that shows the differences in Points, Pixels and
>Picas for online hypertext and also online images?
>
>I'd be willing to make it if there isn't anything out there.
>
>
>I thought different type foundries offered show the fonts in different
>sizes.. or do they display it in points, not pixels?
>
>
>Charles Wilson
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