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In typography, the body height or point size refers to the height of the space in which a glyph is defined. The metal sort: b is the body or shank, c is the body height or font size. Originally, in metal typesetting, the body height or the font (or point) size was defined by the height of the lead cuboid on which the actual font face is moulded.
In typography, the x-height, or corpus size, is the distance between the baseline and the mean line of lowercase letters in a typeface.Typically, this is the height of the letter x in the font (the source of the term), as well as the letters v, w, and z.
"Wallpaper: Font Anatomy". Font.is. Archived from the original on 10 January 2011. Full-size image (1920×1200) giving a more detailed list of typeface elements than in this article. Dean, Paul (2008). eXtreme Type Terminology – Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 and Part 5; Devroye, Luc. "Hoefler & Frere-Jones"
In metal type, the point size of the font describes the height of the metal body on which the typeface's characters were cast. In digital type, letters of a font are designed around an imaginary space called an em square. When a point size of a font is specified, the font is scaled so that its em square has a side length of that particular ...
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Note that Aicher's font sizes are based on the DIN standard then in development, which uses the H-height, whereas in lead typesetting the larger cap height was used.Some typographers have proposed using the x-height instead, because the psychological size depends more on the size of default, lowercase letters.
Font metrics refers to metadata consisting of numeric values relating to size and space in the font overall, or in its individual glyphs. Font-wide metrics include cap height (the height of the capitals), x-height (the height of the lowercase letters) and ascender height, descender depth, and the font bounding box. Glyph-level metrics include ...
AOL Desktop Gold lets you personalize the look and feel of your mailbox by adjusting your mail settings to better fit your needs. Through the settings menu you can choose how a sender's display name is shown, adjust the size of the fonts in your mailbox, customize the date column in your mailbox, and more. Change your mailbox font size