In the font shown here, the ascent is 56 points and the descent is 16 points. The height of the font includes the portion above the baseline (the ascent) and the portion below the baseline (the descent). Most of the characters in a font rest on the baseline. The solid lines show a 1" tall bounding box around the text. The following illustration shows a 72-point font. To display correctly, the font needs some additional space between the text. For example, in many fonts the character Å is taller than the nominal height of the font. In fact, some characters might be taller than 1/6". Obviously, this does not mean that every character in the font is exactly 1/6" tall. Historically, the exact measure of a point has varied.įor example, a 12-point font is designed to fit within a 1/6" (12/72) line of text. This is the desktop publishing definition of point.
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