Point (typography)
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title:
Point (typography)
text:
In typography, the point is the smallest unit of measure. It is used for measuring font size, leading, and other items on a printed page. The size of the point has varied throughout printing's history. Since the 18th century, the size of a point has been between 0.18 and 0.4 millimeters. Following the advent of desktop publishing in the 1980s and 1990s, digital printing has largely supplanted the letterpress printing and has established the desktop publishing (DTP) point as the de facto standard
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Measurement unit used in typography
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_(typography)
date created:
2004-09-16T18:46:16Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T01:20:55Z
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