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"Pitch" when we talk about /computer/ monospaced fonts
Pitch is the number of (monospaced) letters, numbers and spaces in one inch (25.4 mm) of running text, that is, characters per inch (abbreviated cpi). The pitch was most often used as a measurement of ...
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Leading space/padding in sans-serif fonts
Notice the small space before the letter L in the first two lines in the following image.
It's more notable the larger the font size, but it's there in the second line too. The fonts in this example ...
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Should I put a hyphen in “sans-serif”?
If i am describing a font and i say «it is a sans serif» should i put a hyphen in sans-serif or not? A random amount of googling suggests that both with- and without-hyphen are used, and each one ...
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