It persisted because web designers considered it virtuous to keep accommodating people who refused to upgrade those 14-inch monitors. This habit arose because the 14-inch monitors common in the 1990s had relatively coarse resolution. Yes, I know the web has a long tradition of teeny fonts. (See also screen-reading considerations.) Second, screen fonts are rendered with a relatively small number of pixels, so each extra row of pixels improves the quality. First, we typically read screens from further away than we read printed material, so larger point sizes help compensate. As with print, you’ll need to fine-tune based on the particular font you’re using. Also, all CSS measurements are eventually converted to pixels in the browser.įor websites, I recommend body text of 15–25 pixels. But the pixel is the least ambiguous CSS unit. You don’t have to use pixels as the sizing unit in your CSS (and indeed, most prefer not to).
At these sizes, all caps text and lowercase are equally legible.
Text on business cards is often only 6–8 points. Point size can be even smaller in professionally typeset materials like publications and stationery. (You won’t be able to match them exactly.) Below, the point sizes of Sabon and Arno have been adjusted so they occupy the same space as Times New Roman. Adjust the point size of the new font until each line of text breaks in roughly the same place. You can match the length of two fonts by setting a block of text twice: once in the old font and once in the new font, both at the same point size. For instance, the three fonts below-Sabon, Times New Roman, and Arno-are set at 12 point, but they’re not the same size visually. That means you need to let your eyes be the judge. That’s because the point-size system is not absolute-different fonts set at the same point size won’t necessarily appear the same on the page.
Try sizes down to 10 point, including intermediate sizes like 10.5 and 11.5 point-half-point differences are meaningful at this scale.īut I can’t guarantee 12 point will always look too big. If you’re not required to use 12 point, don’t. CSS allows any size, but browsers will typically round to the nearest whole point. Pages allows finer increments of one-tenth of a point. Word lets you specify point sizes in half-point increments. (One major reason is cost: bigger point sizes require more paper.) Nearly every book, newspaper, and magazine is set smaller than 12 point. It’s not the most comfortable size for reading. When you change the column width of Excel cell you will notice that the Width will always round up to the nearest pixel, this is because you can’t have a fractional pixel number.Though 12 point has become the default size in digital word processing-and also the basis of many institutional document-formatting rules-that’s mostly due to the typewriter tradition. In Excel 2007 the default font is Calibri 11.
The default font and size are those selected when the Default Font tick box is selected. This number is based on the default font set in Excel – you can check your Excel default font in 2007 by right clicking on a cell and choosing Format Cells and then the Font tab. The 8.43 is the number of characters you can fit in a cell. In Excel if you click on the side of a column you will see Width: 8.43 (64 pixels). If you adjust your row height to 72 the corresponding number of pixels will be 96 (this is how you can confirm your screen DPI easily!!!). The row height in Excel is in points and is not related to the number of characters.
#CALIBRI FONT PTS TO INCHES WINDOWS#
To convert between points and pixels on a Windows operating system use the relationship pixels = 96/72*points. Windows assumes that there are 96 Dpi on the screen, so 96 pixels are equal to 1 inch which is equal to 72 points. If you set the top and left properties to 72 points then your form will be positioned 1 inch from the top corner or 96 pixels (in Windows). You will notice that if you position the VBA UserForm in pixel values it doesn’t quiet match to what you expect, that is because the property is in points. The point measure is used in graphics programs such as Photoshop, in font sizes, in Excel and VBA.įor example in EXCEL the UserForm.Left and UserForm.Top properties in VBA will return the distance of the top corner of the form in points. A point is measure of size and 1 point is equal to 1/72 inches, So 72 points are equal to 1 inch.