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Underscorre wrote: Callofduty4 wrote: I don't think "ex" is a unit of measurement but I may be about to learn something new. Where did you hear about that? Ex is the equivalent of em, except ex changes x-height (the height of a standard, lower case letter), and em changes the width of a standard letter.

See this page on MDN - 1ex = ~0.5em in most fonts (but you have to remember that refers to height, not width like em does). You learn something every day.

Though, I don't see much point in basing your designs on the height of characters in a font...