M Height

M Height

by Spencer Wasden

HTML

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<h2 style="border-bottom: 1px solid gray;">What is &apos;M Height&apos;?</h2>

<h4 style="background-color: #E5E5E5; padding: 6px;">Overview</h4>


<p>M Height is a reference value you can set to make letters, numbers, words, 
<br/> or phrases <b><i>in the same font</i></b> proportional to each other.</p>
<img src="http://www.wordsanywhere.com/images/m-height-first-illustration.png" />
<h4 style="background-color: #E5E5E5; padding: 6px;">Detailed Explanation</h4>
<p>Consider all the upper and lower case letters of the corsiva font shown below.
  Now ask yourself, "How tall is this lettering?" </p>
<img src="http://www.wordsanywhere.com/images/m%20height%20illus%201.png" alt="Corsiva Alphabet" />
<p>Each letter is a different size...so which should define the lettering height? </p>
<img src="http://www.wordsanywhere.com/images/m%20height%20illus%202.png" />
<p>Should it be 7.13&quot; like the &apos;G&apos;, or possibly 6.24&quot; like the capital &apos;R&apos;? Maybe it&apos;s 3.6&quot; like the &apos;e&apos;. To add to the confusion the lower case &apos;j&apos; at 7.43&quot; is taller than the capital &apos;G&apos;!</p>
<p>Due to size variations between characters in the same font at the same size, when referring to &apos;vinyl letter height&apos; a common reference point is needed. </p>
<p>We&apos;ve chosen one letter to be the reference point for all the other characters. The capital M. </p>
<img src="http://www.wordsanywhere.com/images/m%20height%20illus%203.png" />
<p>In this example the entire alphabet shown above is proportional to a 5.49&quot; capital M. </p>
<p>By setting the M Height the same for each phrase, we can make two phrases </p>
<img src="http://www.wordsanywhere.com/images/m%20height%20illus%204.png" />
<p>match each other in size even though their actual measured...

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body {
  margin: 10px;
}

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