Questions tagged [font-size]
Questions about the size of type in a work, usually measured in points or pixels. Font size can be used to create hierarchy in the content and affects legibility.
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Font size in Photoshop is different from Preview. How is it possible?
1. First create a 12 x 9 inch Photoshop document with 360 pixels per inch and add horizontal and vertical lines after each 12 points. (Edit: 360 is simply what I use myself. You may test it with, for ...
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Robert Bringhurst's typographic scale
A screenshot from https://spencermortensen.com/articles/typographic-scale:
But in the book itself 30-point is missing:
Why is that?
Important note: I have only the 2004 (v3.0) edition of the book. ...
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Inkscape font size: what is its meaning / how is it related to text height?
I had always known that font size is related to height of the text: What is Font Size?
A font is often measured in pt (points). Points dictate the height of the lettering.
(In my mind, I always it ...
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Should Arabic fonts be upscaled to account for diacratics
Arabic fonts tend to appear smaller than Latin fonts because of the vertical space taken up by diacratics. This is especially noticeable when typesetting the Quran, which has much more of these than ...
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Font metric-compatible with Calibri Light?
MS's font Calibri is not legally usable outside of MS (and opening a .doc document with Libre Office will break the structure of the file). To solve that a new font named Carlito was designed to be ...
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Is there a way to import Font-Size to Photoshop from an Excel File?
I know, we can define layers(e.g. text layers) as variables and import data to change the contents of these layers.
(Image -> Variables -> Define)
But I have an excel file with lot of rows of ...
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Proper optical size usage for variable typefaces
How do I know which optical size to use accordingly to pt/px size?
For example, Newsreader goes as low as "1" in the "optical size" axis in it's variable alternative. Does that ...
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What is a relatively LARGE serif or slab font? [closed]
Please do not downvote without reading the question text. The headline is not as pointless as it may sound.
I'm looking for a serif or slab font that that comes out relatively large.
For example, a ...
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What's the recommended font size for standees?
I'm not sure if this question has been asked before, but it's my first time on this site, and it's also my first time making a standee. To be specific, we've decided on a 2ft x 6ft standee, but I'm ...
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How to get the best results printing white text with small font-size on a rich black background
I need to produce a document that has a flat rich-black (C60, M50, Y40, K100) background and text that is white on top. The text is set at 7pt in a monospaced font (PT Mono Regular 400).
What can I do ...
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Inkscape font size doesn't match that of imported figure
I am a scientist and I like to use Inkscape to create schematic figures explaining some experiments and then to combine those figures with other figures I've created using statistical software to ...
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How do you decide the ratio between font-size & line-height?
I don't know if there's a canonical answer, but maybe some theories that you can point me to that I can read about. Do most designers just play it by ear? Or go from the gut?
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How to set up a font style guide for any font?
I am working on a mobile app UI design in Adobe XD. Before starting the design I would like to setup a font style guide. What I have achieved so far is in the attached image. I am using a typeface ...
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Matching different text amounts to the same sized logo?
Using photoshop I have a brand logo that I need to use with different amounts of text.
for example the logo is 6 points long ......
In one project I need to have 'hello' above the logo - That's ...
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Is there a font that has the same horizontal width in every uppercased letter?
im searching for a font that is looking like a normal typewriter font. Almost every monosized font has different sizes in their uppercased width. An "A" has a bigger width than a "B". Is there a font ...
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Why text size is different in these 2 files in Photoshop?
I'm working on Adobe Photoshop(2019-2020).
In one file Arial Regular font size 12pt texts looks normal as in below image:
But in the another file the at size 11pt the text is very big as shown in ...
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How to find a font with the same width as my current font?
Numerous times when creating a grid based layout for print, I would like to be able to change a font of some text content but know which other fonts are also the same text width (despite the same font ...
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Is there a way in InDesign to quickly resize text that is stacked so that each line is the same width but different sizes?
I have a method currently of just going line by line and increasing the font size until it takes up the width of the text box and just readjusting the line/paragraph spacing but want to see if there's ...
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Adobe Acrobat PDF textbox too small
I've been using Adobe Acrobat 10.1.16 to add a text box in a PDF file, by using Tools -> Content -> Add or Edit Text Box. However, the largest size is 24, which is still too small. Is there anyway to ...
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List font sizes used in a psd document
I need a way to find out what font sizes were used in a psd document, similar to this, but for font sizes. It would be great if this way or script is compatible with older versions of PS, like CS4 and ...
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Create metric-compatible font
How can I create a font that is metric-compatible with a commercial font?
I don't need actual glyphs, just rectangles that will preserve the document layout.
What properties are important?
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Should a typographical scale refer to line-height or to the font-size?
First of all, I want to apologize to any serious typographers for using the names of css-attributes instead of proper names. With "font-size" I mean here the defined font-size as one would in css (...
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What should I look for when choosing a typeface for magazine content? [closed]
I am creating a magazine. What is the best typeface and font size to use for content?
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Smallest readable font size for printed card
I'm designing a series of aides memoire for my colleagues to contain key details about our legal powers. I'm working on one version to be printed in business card format and another to be printed (...
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GIMP 2.8.22 How to SELECT ALL text objects in all layers and change font size of all at once? [duplicate]
(GIMP 2.8.22)
I have several text objects labeling parts of the human body and I want to increase the font size of all of them to 20 pts. Each text object was automatically put into its own layer, ...
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What are sections with smaller body text called?
In legal texts, at least in Sweden and Germany, it is common to print some parts of the body text in a smaller font. Is there a name for this typographic convention?
Examples:
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How to align vertical text of differing lengths?
I’m creating cover art for a game that I’m making. I have a narrow vertical space for my title text, so I want the two-word title to be vertical.
The words are different lengths (“Sherlock ...
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how to get used text details on gimp
How can i get used text details like font-family,font-size,font-weight etc from a psd file in gimp
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Why is my text so small in Illustrator?
I’ve tried adjusting my font to bigger sizes but it still looks small. It’s currently set at 72 and it is still tiny. Any reason why it’s not its normal size?
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Photoshop CC 2018 - Text Size (on cavas live preview) missing
This happened recently. I’m not sure which update caused it.
In the past, we’ve been able to manually increase/decrease text size using the arrow keys in Photoshop.
You would be able to see the text ...
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Preview text size change in Photoshop CC 2018
In Photoshop, since time began, when you selected text and then used the arrow keys on your keyboard you could see dynamically the text change on screen as you increased and decreased the point size. ...
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Is there a math formula to make font the same actual size on a 55" and 65" monitor hung next to eacother?
So I have a 65" screen and a bunch of 55" screens (1080x1920) in these big panels. They are turned portrait and flush at the top. So I'm trying to figure out if there is math to easily make the font, ...
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"Print size" & "Distance from viewer" requires "What font size?" [duplicate]
I have always selected my font size by the eye or educated guess/trial and error but at this point I would like to know where I could find a chart or document with guidelines regarding what font size ...
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Scale multiple Text layers one point down?
I'm on Photoshop CC 2017. I make a lot of UI design and I have come across this...
I want to scale down multiple text layers one point at once. From 22pt to 21pt for example, without having to go to ...
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(Illustrator) Adjusting "text box" size when using text on path tool
I'm finding it difficult to resize a path that has text.
I don't want to have smaller font size but bigger "container" so that current or bigger font would fit into.
Following has text "My text just....
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different text sizes on different devices
I am really struggling and was wondering whether anyone can help.
I am designing a mockup on photoshop of a website we are going to build.
We have to show our mockups of the site for all 3 devices (...
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How many width and height are for 14 points character?
As far as i know :
1 point=0.35146cm
14points=4.92044cm.
When we set font-size into 14points, how much width and height are for this 14 points character?
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How to get font to align on the ascender line instead of the baseline?
I'm trying to get a font, SambhotaUnicode, to align on the ascender line, so that text reads evenly across the heads of the letters at different sizes. Another font, TibetanMachineUnicode, actually ...
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How to change measure unit in Character tool Photoshop CS6?
I use pixels in my CSS code rather than points. However, the Character tool in PS CS6 shows the font size in points.
Any way to set the default unit of the Character tool to pixels?
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Small Font Size on Labels, Instructions and User Guides
The font size for a current product instruction label I am working on is 4.75. I am needing to reduce the size even lower to make more content fit. This goes against everything I've learned about ...
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Reduce font size in TTF file
I have a font that I downloaded that I would like to apply to an existing document, but the font size I need is consistently 5.5pt less than the font size in the TTF file I downloaded. So if I want to ...
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Why Does My Font Size Looks Too Large in InDesign? [closed]
In InDesign, I have my font size set to 6 pts, but it definitely looks larger than that. What settings can I look at to try to change this occurrence?
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Adjust font size reltive to another font size in InDesign
Is it possible in InDesign to globally adjust the size of font A relative to the size of another font B so that given the same "Font Size" they have always the same height of their lowercase letters?
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Are there ways to make a font more legible at smaller sizes?
What techniques can be used to make a given font more legible at smaller sizes (in the 6-9pt range, for example)? Will legibility be entirely dependent on the font used, or are there other design ...
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What's with size-specific fonts?
Google Fonts has a font called Slabo 27px – 27px is part of the font name because the font is made for that specific size.
Do you know what’s the point of this?
The font seems the same to me at 16, ...
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Set font size in pixels in Corel Draw x7
im using Corel Draw x7 and need to use font size in pixels instead of points.
Is there any way to do that?
Thank you
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Make font size bigger than max limit of 1296 pt in Adobe Illustrator (2015)?
For some reason and for many years there's a limit for font size in Illustrator. It is 1296 points max, so you can't go bigger without converting type to outlines first. Converting to outlines means ...
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How to I scale my text to past 1269pt in CS6 illustrator?
I've tried the scale function and it doesn't seem to work. I don't know what else to do. Please help.
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Why does 1px equal 1pt in photoshop but not on the web? [duplicate]
Please explain why in Photoshop setting a font size to 16pt or 16px looks exactly the same size but if I do the same test on a web site, the font-sizes are VERY different.
Example on the web
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Are there any common system fonts that maintain decent legibility at small sizes?
Are any of the common Windows fonts more legible than others at small sizes, such as 6pt?
I know that there are some free fonts (such as PT Sans) that have decent caption styles, but I'm looking ...
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