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2. Typographic unit - Wikipedia

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   Typographic unit. A ruler showing 4 scales (from the top down): Inches, Points, Picas, and Agates. Diagram of font metrics showing where letters and symbols would be placed relative to each other. The letters would change size according to the font type, typographic unit and dimension used. Typographic units are the units of measurement used in ...

3. Lines per inch - Wikipedia

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   Lines per inch ( LPI) is a measurement of printing resolution. A line consists of halftones that is built up by physical ink dots made by the printer device to create different tones. Specifically LPI is a measure of how close together the lines in a halftone grid are. The quality of printer device or screen determines how high the LPI will be.

4. Centimetre - Wikipedia

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   A centimetre (International spelling) or centimeter ( American spelling ), with SI symbol cm, is a unit of length in the International System of Units (SI) equal to one hundredth of a metre, centi being the SI prefix for a factor of 1 100. [1] Equivalently, there are 100 centimetres in 1 metre. The centimetre was the base unit of length in the ...

5. File:Mm to 1 inch fraction ruler.svg - Wikipedia

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   Description Mm to 1 inch fraction ruler.svg. English: a ruler from 0 to 1 inch (in.) in 1/32 inch divisions below the line and 1/2 millimetre (mm) divisions above the line to give a visual representation of the approximations. Principally designed to help visually determine if a metric or imperial drill bit will suffice. Date.

6. Pica (typography) - Wikipedia

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   The pica is a typographic unit of measure corresponding to approximately of an inch, or from to of a foot. One pica is further divided into 12 points . In printing, three pica measures are used: The French pica of 12 Didot points (also called cicero) generally is: 12 × 0.376 = 4.512 mm (0.1776 in). The American pica of 0.16604 inches (4.217 mm).

7. Pyramid inch - Wikipedia

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   This was the origin of the "pyramid inch". Taylor regarded the "pyramid inch" to be 1/25 of the "sacred cubit ", ancient unit based on the forearm length from the tip of the middle finger to the bottom of the elbow, whose existence had earlier been postulated by Isaac Newton. [4] The principal argument was that the total length of the four ...