Type is made in standard sizes and not so very long ago each size was known by a name. Then a change was made and the point system,63 as it is called, came into general use. The sizes under the old and the new systems are given in the following table and it will enable you to know type sizes both by name and by point.

Table Of Type Sizes

63 This is the standard system of sizes for type bodies. It is so called because it is measured in decimal points or fractions of an inch; that is, I point is .0138 inch, so that nonpareil, as it used to be called, is now 6 point and burgeois is 9 point, etc.