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em?
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- rasko40
actually thats wrong, it comes from the name for a metal block used in metal press called an 'em-quad', half an em is called an 'en' which assisted in the confusion but an 'em' is basically the constant body size of a font, so if you design a 12pt typeface, 1em is therefore 12pt.