#Psychopy height corresponds to pt font full#

There are some caveats for font sizes when you're dealing with things on the web. Essentially, each font contains a set of algorithms that determine how the font should be rendered in a given context (various sizes, bold, italics, etc.).Ĭonsequently, the best way to figure out how a font will render in a given context is to render it and see. It's probably not obvious to most, but if you examine the licensing terms for fonts you'll notice that they're licensed as font software. It also means that there's no standard way to figure out how tall a certain character might be at any given size, aside from rendering the font. Fontsįonts themselves render glyphs in different ways (obviously, since fonts look different), and this means that a particular character will not necessarily render the same height across fonts.

For proportional fonts, the space each character uses is more in line with its shape, relative to other characters, so i, j, and l are vary narrow, while w, m, and o are typically wider. For fixed-width fonts, the space each character takes up on the line is exactly the same (though the characters themselves may not quite be the same size as one-another. There is also an important distinction between proportional and fixed-width fonts.

Width of glyphs varies between fonts, as you can see in the image above.

#Psychopy height corresponds to pt font full#

Font height is measured or specified by the height of a line, which is the full height required to display the gamut of characters, including those that dip below the line, like j, and raised elements (accents on capitals, for instance) like Ê.įonts in order of appearance: Times New Roman, Courier New, Calibri, Consolas.