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Re: [css-text] Characters per line

From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 08:25:55 -0700
Message-ID: <CAAWBYDB3Ow18M6Y9aTYuMN7dOusdF2gg7VjoQ_qEYqMH-i-4zA@mail.gmail.com>
To: "mus@designtoday.co.uk" <mus@designtoday.co.uk>
Cc: Koji Ishii <kojiishi@gluesoft.co.jp>, "CSS WWW Style (www-style@w3.org)" <www-style@w3.org>, Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 2:32 AM,  <mus@designtoday.co.uk> wrote:
> I see, I hadnt come across that unit measurement before. I think that
> would be adequate, not sure if designers are really aware of it as they
> generally think in CPL. I have a talk next month at a London meet up, ill
> mention CH there. :)

As Zack said, using 'em' should generally be okay too.  In most fonts,
1ch is approximately equal to .5em.

~TJ
Received on Tuesday, 22 April 2014 15:26:46 UTC

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