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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 1
Point Systems, English and German
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Point Systems, English and German.
For the following elaborate table we are indebted to the St. Louis Printers' Register, published by the Central Type Foundry. The English and German scales, shown separately in the Register, we have thrown into one, distinguishing the German bodies by italic. The American standard is the latest, based upon the Johnson pica (12-point) = ·166 inch; 83 picas = 35 centimeters. The continental scale is based on 133 Cicero (Corpus 12) = 60 centimeters.
| Size in Inches. | Size in Centimeters. | No. of ems per foot. | No. of ems per Meter. | |
| 1-point | 0·0138 | 0·0351 | 867·4699 | 2845·7143 |
| Corpus 1 | ·0148 | ·0376 | 810·7696 | 2660· |
| 1½-point | ·207 | ·0527 | 578·3132 | 1897·1428 |
| Corpus 1½ | ·0222 | ·0564 | 540·5131 | 1773·3333 |
| 2-point | ·0277 | ·0703 | 433·7349 | 1422·8572 |
| Corpus 2 | ·0296 | ·0752 | 405·3848 | 1330· |
| 3-point | ·0415 | ·1054 | 289·1566 | 948·5714 |
| Corpus 3 | ·0444 | ·1128 | 270·2565 | 886·6666 |
| 3½-point | ·0484 | ·1230 | 247·8486 | 813·0612 |
| 4-point | ·0553 | ·1406 | 216·8675 | 711·4286 |
| Corpus 4 | ·0592 | ·1504 | 202·6924 | 665· |
| 4½-point | ·0622 | ·1581 | 192·7711 | 632·3810 |
| Corpus 4½ | ·0666 | ·1692 | 180·1710 | 591·1111 |
| 5-point | ·0692 | ·1757 | 173·4940 | 569·1428 |
| Corpus 5 | ·0740 | ·1879 | 162·1539 | 532· |
| 5½-point | ·0761 | ·1933 | 157·7218 | 517·4026 |
| Corpus 6 | ·0888 | ·2256 | 135·1283 | 443·3333 |
| 6-point | ·083 | ·2108 | 144·5783 | 474·2857 |
| 7-point | ·0968 | ·2460 | 123·9243 | 406·5306 |
| Corpus 7 | ·1036 | ·2632 | 115·8301 | 380· |
| 8-point | ·1107 | ·2811 | 108·4337 | 355·7142 |
| Corpus 8 | ·1184 | ·3008 | 101·3462 | 332·5 |
| 9-point | ·1245 | ·3163 | 96·3855 | 316·1905 |
| Corpus 9 | ·1332 | ·3383 | 90·0855 | 295·5555 |
| 10-point | ·1383 | ·3514 | 86·7470 | 284·5714 |
| Corpus 10 | ·1480· | ·3759 | 81·0769 | 266· |
| 11-point | ·1522 | ·3865 | 78·8609 | 258·7013 |
| 12-point | ·166 | ·4217 | 72·2892 | 287·1429 |
| Corpus 12 | ·1776 | ·4511 | 67·5641 | 221·6666 |
| 14-point | ·1937 | ·4920 | 61·9621 | 203·2653 |
| Corpus 14 | ·2072 | ·5263 | 57·9151 | 190· |
| 15-point | ·2075 | ·5271 | 57·8313 | 189·7143 |
| 16-point | ·2213 | ·5622 | 54·2170 | 177·8571 |
| Corpus 16 | ·2368 | ·6015 | 50·6731 | 166·25 |
| 18-point | ·249 | ·6325 | 48·1928 | 158·0952 |
| Corpus 18 | ·2664 | ·6767 | 45·0428 | 147·7777 |
| 20-point | ·2767 | ·7028 | 43·3735 | 142·2857 |
| Corpus 20 | ·2960 | ·7519 | 40·5385 | 133· |
| 24-point | ·332 | ·8434 | 36·1446 | 118·5714 |
| Corpus 24 | ·3552 | ·9023 | 33·7821 | 110·8333 |
| Corpus 28 | ·4144 | 1·0526 | 28·9575 | 95· |
| 30-point | ·415 | 1·0542 | 28·9157 | 94·8571 |
| Corpus 30 | ·4440 | 1·1278 | 27·0257 | 88·6666 |
| Corpus 32 | ·4736 | 1·2030 | 25·3366 | 83·125 |
| 36-point | ·498 | 1·2651 | 24·0964 | 79·0476 |
| Corpus 36 | ·5328 | 1·3534 | 22·5214 | 73·8888 |
| 42-point | ·581 | 1·4759 | 20·6540 | 67·7551 |
| Corpus 40 | ·5920 | 1·5038 | 20·2692 | 66·5 |
| Corpus 42 | ·6216 | 1·5789 | 19·3050 | 63·3333 |
| 48-point | ·664 | 1·6867 | 18·0723 | 59·2857 |
| Corpus 48 | ·7104 | 1·8045 | 16·8910 | 55·4166 |
| Corpus 54 | ·7992 | 2·0301 | 15·0143 | 49·2592 |
| 60-point | ·83 | 2·1084 | 14·4578 | 47·4285 |
| Corpus 60 | ·8880 | 2·2556 | 13·5128 | 44·3333 |
| 72-point | ·996 | 2·5301 | 12·0482 | 39·5238 |
| Corpus 72 | 1·0656 | 2·7068 | 11·2607 | 36·9444 |