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Font Size - Translating to actual point size

Quick question for everyone:

Does anybody know what the actual point size would be when setting the font-size to the following values:

  • Large
  • Larger
  • Medium
  • Small
  • Smaller
  • X-Large
  • X-Small
  • XX-Large
  • XX-Small
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Jim B Avatar asked May 06 '11 14:05

Jim B


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1 Answers

Font sizes to pixels are explained by this chart:

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bpeterson76 Avatar answered Sep 22 '22 05:09

bpeterson76