Same font, same pt size, no relative scaling This holds to this day: 16 pt text on Windows is ⅓ larger than 16 pt text on macOS. So they figured, why not make everything ⅓ larger?Īnd they did, indeed. Why not 72? Not because they had better displays (they didn’t), but because 72 gave you too few pixels to render a legible text. In the spirit of true cooperation, Windows uses 96 PPI instead of 72. Nice! Of course, Mac displays have improved their PPI since, but the convention stays. If you view text there, its physical size on the screen will match its physical size when printed. Why the number 72? Turns out, original Macs used to have displays with exactly 72 PPI.
SMALL SQUARE FONT BOX 1080P
If you put macOS on a 32” monitor and a 24” monitor, both set to 1080p resolution, you’ll get identical pixel size, but not physical size, undermining the original idea. Instead, macOS always uses 72 PPI to convert points to pixels. If I want to see my letters 2 inches tall, I can do that by setting the font size to 144 pt. The idea here was that you set font size directly in physical units, ignoring minute details like screen resolution. Point is a physical unit of measure, equal to 1⁄72 of an inch (0.353 mm), originating from typography. What is going on? Pointsįirst, that size is not in pixels, it’s in points. If we measure letters themselves, number 32 is nowhere to be seen:ģ2 is not the width or height of a letter, neither is it a capital letter height, an x-letter height, an ascender height, a descender height. What happens when you set "font_size": 32 in your favorite editor? I would’ve told you anyway, but I’m glad that you asked.
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