Typographic units are the units of measurement used in typography or typesetting. Traditional typometry units are different from familiar metric units...
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Metric typographic units have been devised and proposed several times to overcome the various traditional point systems. After the French Revolution of...
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Typographical symbols and punctuation marks are marks and symbols used in typography with a variety of purposes such as to help with legibility and accessibility...
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Quart Festival, a music festival in Norway Quart (typographic unit), a proposed metric typographic unit Quart, Aosta Valley, a comune in Italy Quart, Girona...
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En (typography) (redirect from En (unit))
An en (from English en quadrat) is a typographic unit, half of the width of an em. By definition, it is equivalent to half of the body height of the typeface...
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Pica (typography) (redirect from Pica (unit of measure))
The pica is a typographic unit of measure corresponding to approximately 1⁄6 of an inch. One pica is further divided into 12 points. In printing, three...
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Em (typography) (redirect from Em unit)
Therefore, this unit is the same for all typefaces at a given point size. The em space is one em wide. Typographic measurements using this unit are frequently...
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Typography (redirect from Typographical)
equivalents Typographic alignment – Setting of text flow or image placement relative to a page, column, table cell, or tab Typographic unit – Units of measurement...
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Agate (typography) (redirect from Agate (unit of measure))
An agate (US) or ruby (UK) is a unit of typographical measure. It is 5.5 typographical points, or about 1⁄13 inch (1.94 mm). It can refer either to the...
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text by means of arranging physical types or digital equivalents Typographic unit – Units of measurement Typography – Art of arranging type Unicode font –...
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Point (typography) (redirect from Typographic point)
other words, 2−1.5 mm = 1⁄√8 mm approximates an English typographic point rather well. The basic unit of measurements in American typography was the pica...
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A figure space or numeric space is a typographic unit equal to the size of a single numerical digit. Its size can fluctuate somewhat depending on which...
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publish an edition of Cicero's letters that gives its name to the typographic unit of measurement the cicero. 1468 31 May – The Byzantine scholar Cardinal...
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Cicero (typography) (redirect from Cicero (unit of measure))
measurement. Jacques André and Denis Girou (1999). "Father Truchet, the typographic point, the Romain du roi, and tilings" (PDF). TUGboat. 20. Archived from...
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Twip (category Units of length)
is a typographical measurement, defined as 1⁄20 of a typographical point. One twip is 1⁄1440 inch, or 17.64 μm. Twips are screen-independent units to ensure...
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proportional spacing of characters). The Alto monitor (72 PPI, based on the typographic unit) was designed so that one full page of text could be seen and then...
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Programmable controller (disambiguation) Pica (typography) (pc), a typographic unit of measure Program counter, a special register inside CPUs Path connected...
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system of units, imperial system or imperial units (also known as British Imperial or Exchequer Standards of 1826) is the system of units first defined...
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gave its name to the typographic unit of measurement named cicero, Continental Europe's equivalent of the pica typographic unit. Their editorial director...
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writing the symbol by hand. The usual typographical distinctions (such as italic for variables and roman for units) are difficult to maintain. Likewise...
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List of radicals in Unicode List of Unicode fonts List of typefaces Typographic unit Unicode Consortium Fallback font – A type of reserve typeface Unicode...
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Geometric and Humanist typefaces, in the traditions of the International Typographic Style and resembles an obscured and disjointed form of a typeface such...
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960 (7-bit Hebrew ISO/IEC 646) Figure space (typographic unit equal to the size of a single typographic figure) Six-bit character code List of binary...
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The International Typographical Union (ITU) was a North American trade union for the printing trade of newspapers and other media. It was founded on May...
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Angstrom (redirect from Angstrom Unit)
spelled. However, "A" or "A.U." may be used in less formal contexts or typographically limited media. The angstrom is often used in the natural sciences and...
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"IF'" with a total length is 537 km, and the height of the drawing in typographic units is 319,334,400 points. Typical computer fonts at standard resolutions...
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Numero sign (category Typographical symbols)
or numero symbol, № (also represented as Nº, No̱, No., or no.), is a typographic abbreviation of the word number(s) indicating ordinal numeration, especially...
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(about 4 parts in one million) than the pied used in France. The French typographic point, the Didot point, was 1⁄72 of a French inch, i.e. two royal points...
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Paren (river), a river in northeastern Russia Paren space, a blank typographic unit equal to the size of a parenthesis PAREN, a political party in Burkina...
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Lambda (written λ, in lowercase) is a non-SI unit of volume equal to 10−9 m3, 1 cubic millimetre (mm3) or 1 microlitre (μL). Introduced by the BIPM in...
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