About font sizes

HTML measures font sizes in absolute numbers to guarantee that the text is displayed in the same size, regardless of the size of the viewer.

You can work with fonts in point sizes or standard HTML sizes. Both font sizes are displayed from the Font Size list on the Formatting toolbar. The text you format is displayed using the selected font size so you can see the end-results in the WYSIWYG Editor.

The following table illustrates how HTML font sizes measure up to point sizes:

Point size

HTML size

8

1

10

2

12

3

14

4

18

5

24

6

36

7