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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Reason for utilizing Fibonacci sequences in design
When determining the ratio of the grid layout or choosing the sizes of texts and Web UI elements, it is common practice to choose a sequence of numbers from the Fibonacci sequence.
Aside from the ...
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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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