web font sizes from PSD to HTML
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- etphonehome
Recently I have been having problems with ceratinbg layouts using point type sizes. This was on a Mac. Upon giving this to the PC developer, she found it hard to follow the layout given that the same point size is much larger using style sheets. How can we alleviate this problem?
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- kezza_20
all our coders use for font sizes... It gives you much more control
em, em height, em length
A unit of measure for fonts that is the length between the top and bottom of the upper case letter M. This measure is independent of the scale at which the font is reproduced and may be used to describe the vertical proportion of a font in relation to its ex height, strongly indicated on the lower case letters b, d, h and k.
Em can be used as a proportional unit of length in CSS to scale properties in relation to the default font size settings in a users' browser:
- heavyt0
points are not sccurate for web.
they are really for print only, web apps treat them differently.
pixels are the only units that will be the same no matter what, although sec 508 doesnt really like them.
i strongly encourage the use of EMs. they are a very accurate way to size text while maintaining the scaling featurre in IE.TR1