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Why font size does not (really) relate to how big it is
[…] I set out to find out which part of my 15px Verdana is actually 15px in width or height. The only problem was that I could’t find any part because there was none.
According to Thomas Phinney’s great Article em equals the font’s point size which is a grid of an arbitrary number of units (mostly 1000 or 2048 UPM/Units Per Em) into which the glyphs are drawn.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m336pi6AZ71qzlt3uo1_500.png)
Why font size does not (really) relate to how big it is
[…] I set out to find out which part of my 15px Verdana is actually 15px in width or height. The only problem was that I could’t find any part because there was none.
According to Thomas Phinney’s great Article em equals the font’s point size which is a grid of an arbitrary number of units (mostly 1000 or 2048 UPM/Units Per Em) into which the glyphs are drawn.
