point size
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- noun
- /pɔɪnt saɪz/
- Specialized
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tamaño de punto
- Light typefaces can sometimes be difficult to use, especially at small point sizes, because of the nature of thin strokes.
- font's point size
It did not have these hints to enable you to survive and make it look good down at very small point sizes on low resolution devices.
- It did not have these hints to enable you to survive and make it look good down at very small point sizes on low resolution devices.
Examples
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When designing the flyer, make sure to choose a point size that is clear from a distance.
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When I put samples of Deja Vu Mono and Source Code Pro side by side (rather, top by bottom), they're exactly the same width, at least using point sizes between 9 and 11.
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For the left and right letters, use 450 point size.
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At larger sizes, Source Code is certainly nice, but at the small point sizes a lot of things look awkward.
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This antialiasing problem goes away with larger point sizes; even 10.5 pt is large enough to clear everything up.
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By choosing point sizes with identical metrics between the two fonts, I was able to see how the faces compared pixelwise.
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For the project presentation, we decided to use a 14-point size for better readability on the slides.
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The document specified using a standard 12-point size for all text to maintain consistency.
How Big
- Formal
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the visual size of a plotted point' is directly and compositionally derived from 'point' (a dot/marker on a graph) + 'size' (how large something is). This simple noun-noun combination follows standard English compounding patterns and is readily inferable by a B1 learner who knows the constituent words and the plotting context.
Etymology
Point size comes from old printing, where a 'point' was a small measure printers used to set how tall letters were. The words point and size together mean the 'height' of the characters, so point size tells you how big text will look.