Point, in typography, may also refer to a
dot grapheme (e.g.:
full stop;
Interpunct) as in the expression,
decimal point. For non-typographical uses, see
point.In
typography, a point is the smallest
unit of measure, being a subdivision of the larger
pica. It is commonly abbreviated as pt. The traditional printer's point, from the era of
hot metal typesetting and
presswork, varied between 0.18 and 0.4
mm depending on various definitions of the
foot.Today, the traditional point has been supplanted by the desktop publishing point (also called the
PostScript point), which has been rounded to an even 72 points to the
inch (1 point = 127 / 360 mm = 0.3527 mm). In either system, there are 12 points to the pica.
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