This is a handle chart. http://jerekdain.com/fontconversion.html
-----Original Message----- From: css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org [mailto:css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org] On Behalf Of Crest Christopher Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2014 9:53 PM To: Tom Livingston Cc: Chris F.A. Johnson; CSS-Discuss; John Subject: Re: [css-d] why are ems rendering large? A font-size of 120% is 19px, is my math correct ? Tom Livingston wrote: > I don't know about golden, but it equal to the browser default which, > if unchanged, is usually 16px. > > > > On Thursday, July 24, 2014, Crest Christopher > <crestchristop...@gmail.com <mailto:crestchristop...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Is this a golden rule, 1em = 16px ? If the math is 120 * 16 = 1920 > px or rounded down as mentioned 19px, correct ? > > Tom Livingston wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 9:40 AM, Crest Christopher >> <crestchristop...@gmail.com> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','crestchristop...@gmail.com');> wrote: >>> Now you confused me ? >>> >>> >> ems are relative to font size. >> >> Given a browser default of 16px, 1em = 16px. >> >> If you have something set at font-size: 120%;, that's 120% bigger than >> 16px (1em) so, like Chris said, it would be 19px (rounded down) or >> 1.188em; >> >> > > > > -- > > Tom Livingston | Senior Front-End Developer | Media Logic | > ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx: 518.456.4279 | mlinc.com <http://mlinc.com> ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
