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From: Straton on 12 May 2010 19:18
There seems to be a significant difference between the actual character size
of Times New Roman characters and Arial characters when they are both set to
the same font "size" (e.g. 12 pt.) My understanding of "points" is that they
fix the actual size of a character, so why does the size change when I change
font face?
From: Suzanne S. Barnhill on 12 May 2010 23:17
Font size is determined by the distance from the bottom of descenders to the
top of ascenders. Some fonts have a larger "x-height," which is the height
of the lowercase letters (not counting ascenders and descenders), making
them appear larger (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typeface#Font_metrics
and http://www.fonts.com/AboutFonts/Articles/fyti/TypeSizes.htm)

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> There seems to be a significant difference between the actual character
> size
> of Times New Roman characters and Arial characters when they are both set
> to
> the same font "size" (e.g. 12 pt.) My understanding of "points" is that
> they
> fix the actual size of a character, so why does the size change when I
> change
> font face?
>

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