Today I am just talking about a learning experience “a reminder” of a mistake I made years ago when I first started designing shirts. I made the mistake of making all the point sizes the same on the computer screen and went ahead and typed several names then cut them each out in expensive vinyl, only to notice that after they we all cut out, they all looked different in size. But why? The computer said they were all 48pts. I added an example that shows how all four examples are 48pts but look how different they really are.
As the class watched a video in Layout II, I was thinking about how I learned the hard way with a costly vinyl cutting mistake.
Remember you can not measure a point size, what you are seeing is the measurement of the invisible bounding box. In this example, it is 48 points.
The bounding boxes are the same, in digital type a designer can ignore the bounding box, and when sizing type they can not go by the point size. If you want to resize so cap heights are the same, make X heights the same. The X-height is the height of lowercase characters.
