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  2. Traditional point-size names - Wikipedia

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    Point Metric size American system Continental system Chinese system American [4] British [1] French [5] German [6] Dutch Character Pinyin Meaning 1 ≈ 0.353 mm: American [a] ...

  3. Point (typography) - Wikipedia

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    The point was first established by the Milanese typographer, Francesco Torniella da Novara (c. 1490 – 1589) in his 1517 alphabet, L'Alfabeto.The construction of the alphabet is the first based on logical measurement called "Punto," which corresponds to the ninth part of the height of the letters or the thickness of the principal stroke.

  4. Typeface anatomy - Wikipedia

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    When the stroke is part of a lowercase [4] and rises above the height of an x (the x height), it is known as an ascender. [7] Letters with ascenders are b d f h k l. A stroke which drops below the baseline is a descender. [7] Letters with descenders are g j p q y.

  5. Whitespace character - Wikipedia

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    A whitespace character is a character data element that represents white space when text is rendered for display by a computer. For example, a space character (U+0020 SPACE, ASCII 32) represents blank space such as a word divider in a Western script. A printable character results in output when rendered, but a whitespace character does not ...

  6. List of Scott Pilgrim characters - Wikipedia

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    O'Malley created a height chart for the characters, printed in volume 1, but said "it's not really canon, and I never did one again, and the heights were always very inconsistent." [3] With the exception of five of the characters, O'Malley said that the heights were "always kinda vague. I didn't pay enough attention to it."

  7. What Was Queen Elizabeth’s Height? Royal Family Members ...

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    As it turns out, her ex-husband King Charles was also the same height, so Diana often avoided heels and tried to find ways to make herself look shorter. 7. King Charles: 5’10"

  8. List of Unicode characters - Wikipedia

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    95 characters; the 52 alphabet characters belong to the Latin script. The remaining 43 belong to the common script. The 33 characters classified as ASCII Punctuation & Symbols are also sometimes referred to as ASCII special characters. Often only these characters (and not other Unicode punctuation) are what is meant when an organization says a ...

  9. Human height - Wikipedia

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    Height measurement using a stadiometer. Human height or stature is the distance from the bottom of the feet to the top of the head in a human body, standing erect.It is measured using a stadiometer, [1] in centimetres when using the metric system or SI system, [2] [3] or feet and inches when using United States customary units or the imperial system.