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Pica (typography)

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The pica is a typographic unit of measure corresponding to approximately of an inch, or of a foot. [1]

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Adobe InDesign

Adobe InDesign is a desktop publishing software application produced by Adobe Systems.

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Cascading Style Sheets

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used for describing the presentation of a document written in a markup language like HTML.

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Cicero (typography)

A cicero is a unit of measure used in typography in Italy, France and other continental European countries, first used by Pannartz and Sweynheim in 1468 for the edition of Cicero's Epistulae ad Familiares.

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Foot (unit)

The foot (feet; abbreviation: ft; symbol: ′, the prime symbol) is a unit of length in the imperial and US customary systems of measurement.

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Helvetica

Helvetica or Neue Haas Grotesk is a widely used sans-serif typeface developed in 1957 by Swiss typeface designer Max Miedinger with input from Eduard Hoffmann.

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Imperial units

The system of imperial units or the imperial system (also known as British Imperial or Exchequer Standards of 1825) is the system of units first defined in the British Weights and Measures Act of 1824, which was later refined and reduced.

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Inch

The inch (abbreviation: in or &Prime) is a unit of length in the (British) imperial and United States customary systems of measurement now formally equal to yard but usually understood as of a foot.

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International System of Units

The International System of Units (SI, abbreviated from the French Système international (d'unités)) is the modern form of the metric system, and is the most widely used system of measurement.

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Length

In geometric measurements, length is the most extended dimension of an object.

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Metric system

The metric system is an internationally adopted decimal system of measurement.

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Pitch (typewriter)

Pitch is the number of characters and spaces in of, that is, characters per inch (abbreviated cpi).

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Point (typography)

In typography, the point is the smallest unit of measure.

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QuarkXPress

QuarkXPress is a desktop publishing software for creating and editing complex page layouts in a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) environment.

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TeX

TeX (see below), stylized within the system as TeX, is a typesetting system (or "formatting system") designed and mostly written by Donald Knuth and released in 1978.

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Typographic unit

Typographic units are the units of measurement used in typography or typesetting.

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United States customary units

United States customary units are a system of measurements commonly used in the United States.

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World Wide Web Consortium

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web (abbreviated WWW or W3).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pica_(typography)

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