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Points

In typography, the point is the smallest unit of measure. It is used for measuring font size, leading, and other items on a printed page. The size of the point has varied throughout the history of printing. Since the 18th century, the point's size has varied from 0.18 to 0.4 millimeters. Following the advent of desktop publishing in the 1980s and 1990s, digital printing has largely supplanted the letterpress printing and has established the DTP point (desktop publishing point) as the de facto standard. The DTP point is defined as  1/72 of an international inch (about 0.353 mm) and, as with earlier American point sizes, is considered to be  1/12 of a pica.

In metal type, the point size of the font described the height of the metal body on which the typeface's characters were cast. In digital type, letters of a font are designed around an imaginary space called an em square. When a point size of a font is specified, the font is scaled so that its em square has a side length of that particular length in points. Although the letters of a font usually fit within the font's em square, there is not necessarily any size relationship between the two, so the point size does not necessarily correspond to any measurement of the size of the letters on the printed page.

Points
Symbol/abbreviation: pt
Unit of: LENGTH
LENGTH's base unit: meters (SI Unit)
In relation to the base unit (meters), 1 Points = 0.000352778 meters.

Conversion table
1 Points (pt) to all length units

1 pt= 0.19444456692867 agate [typography] (agate)
1 pt= 0.00059412440339656 alens (aln)
1 pt= 3527780 angstroms (Å)
1 pt= 2.3581752758196E-15 astronomical unit (au)
1 pt= 3.52778E+14 attometers (am)
1 pt= 0.041666692913386 barleycorns (bcorn)
1 pt= 352778000 bicrons (μμ)
1 pt= 4.384121729102E-6 blocks (bl)
1 pt= 6666540.6848748 bohr radius (Bohr)
1 pt= 1.9036318034259E-6 cable length uk (cbl[UK])
1 pt= 1.6075113006707E-6 cable length us (cbl[US])
1 pt= 1.3888897637795 calibers (cal)
1 pt= 1.3888897637795 centiinch (cin)
1 pt= 0.0352778 centimeters (cm)
1 pt= 1.7536486916408E-5 chains (ch)
1 pt= 0.00077160542432196 cubits (cbt)
1 pt= 3.52778E-5 decameters (dam)
1 pt= 0.00352778 decimeters (dm)
1 pt= 0.93830868175149 didot points (didot point)
1 pt= 0.018518530183727 digits (digit)
1 pt= 8.81945E-12 earth circumference (Ec)
1 pt= 9.1773195769013E-13 earth to moon distance (EM d)
1 pt= 0.00030864216972878 ells (eel)
1 pt= 0.083645886860081 ems (EM)
1 pt= 3.52778E-22 exameters (Em)
1 pt= 0.00019290135608049 fathoms (fath)
1 pt= 0.0011574081364829 feet (ft)
1 pt= 352778000000 femtometers (fm)
1 pt= 352778000000 fermi (fermi)
1 pt= 0.0030864216972878 finger cloth (finer)
1 pt= 0.015873025871766 fingerbreadth (fb)
1 pt= 0.0011231391276663 fods (fod)
1 pt= 3.8580271216098E-6 football field length [US] (fbf[US])
1 pt= 1.7536486916408E-6 furlongs (fur)
1 pt= 3.52778E-13 gigameters (Gm)
1 pt= 1.1453831168831E-5 greek plethron (pleth)
1 pt= 1.9069081081081E-6 greek stadion (std)
1 pt= 0.0034722244094488 hands (h)
1 pt= 3.52778E-6 hectometers (hm)
1 pt= 35.2778 himetrics (hiMetric)
1 pt= 0.00014699083333333 horse length (hl)
1 pt= 0.00018601687636843 hvats (hvat)
1 pt= 0.013888897637795 inches (in)
1 pt= 3.52778E-7 kilometers (km)
1 pt= 1.1431561892417E-23 kiloparsecs (kpc)
1 pt= 1.3620772200772E-17 light days (ld)
1 pt= 3.2694902687674E-16 light hours (lh)
1 pt= 1.9609672040022E-14 light minutes (lmin)
1 pt= 4.5396731437395E-19 light months (lm)
1 pt= 1.1767111407605E-12 light seconds (ls)
1 pt= 3.7287601733432E-20 light years (ly)
1 pt= 0.16798952380952 lines (l)
1 pt= 0.0017536451843417 links (li)
1 pt= 9.1773195769013E-13 lunar distance (LD)
1 pt= 3.52778E-10 megameters (Mm)
1 pt= 0.000352778 meters (m)
1 pt= 0.0011759266666667 metric foot (mf)
1 pt= 13888.897637795 microinches (μin)
1 pt= 352.778 micrometers (μm)
1 pt= 352778000 micromicrons (μμm)
1 pt= 2.192060864551E-7 miles (mi)
1 pt= 0.352778 millimeters (mm)
1 pt= 13.888897637795 mils (mil)
1 pt= 3.52778E-8 myriameters (Mym)
1 pt= 0.0061728433945757 nails cloth (nail)
1 pt= 352778 nanometers (nm)
1 pt= 6.3494960403168E-8 nautical leagues (Nl)
1 pt= 1.904848812095E-7 nautical miles (NM)
1 pt= 0.00046296325459318 paces (pace)
1 pt= 0.0046296325459318 palms (palm)
1 pt= 1.1432756361716E-20 parsecs (pc)
1 pt= 7.0145947665633E-5 perch (perch)
1 pt= 3.52778E-19 petameters (Pm)
1 pt= 0.083333385892388 picas (p)
1 pt= 352778000 picometers (pm)
1 pt= 1.3333343412075 pixels (PX)
1 pt= 2.2048625E+31 planck length (pl)
1 pt= 1 points (pt)
1 pt= 7.0145947665633E-5 poles (pole)
1 pt= 0.007936512935883 rack unit (ru)
1 pt= 0.083333396325467 rems (rem)
1 pt= 7.0145947665633E-5 rods (rd)
1 pt= 9.9374084507042E-6 roman actus (actus)
1 pt= 5.7870406824147E-5 ropes (rope)
1 pt= 3.52778E-8 scandinavian miles (mil[Scandinavian])
1 pt= 2.3581417112299E-21 siriometer (sir)
1 pt= 0.0015432108486439 spans (span)
1 pt= 3.52778E-16 terameters (Tm)
1 pt= 13.888897637795 thou (th)
1 pt= 19.999886614887 twips (twip)
1 pt= 0.0004073648960739 varas [Argentina] (vr[Argentina])
1 pt= 0.00042087484243649 varas [California] (vr[California])
1 pt= 0.00040830787037037 varas [Latin America] (vr[Latin])
1 pt= 0.00042096608672824 varas [Mexico] (vr[Mexico])
1 pt= 0.00042203373609283 varas [Spanish] (vr[Spanish])
1 pt= 0.00041666528871934 varas [Texas] (vr[Texas])
1 pt= 3.3068803899513E-7 versts (vst)
1 pt= 3520724468.1658 x unit (xu)
1 pt= 0.00038580271216098 yards (yd)
1 pt= 3.52778E+20 yoctometers (ym)
1 pt= 3.52778E-28 yottameters (Ym)
1 pt= 3.52778E+17 zeptometers (zm)
1 pt= 3.52778E-25 zettameters (Zm)
1 pt= 0.013888897637795 zolls (zoll)