Points and picas

Designers don’t uses inches. They use points and picas. Here’s what you need to know:

A point is smaller than a pica.

1 inch = 72 points
1 inch = 6 picas

Adobe InDesign displays units like this:

pica → 0p0 ← point

8p6  (that means 8 pica, 6 points)

0p11 (that means 0 pica, 11 points)

>> the next bigger increment would be: 1p0 (that means 1 pica, 0 points)

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