Intypography, thebody height or point size refers to the height of the space in which aglyph is defined.

Originally, inmetal typesetting, thebody height or thefont (orpoint)size was defined by the height of the leadcuboid (metal sort) on which the actual font face is moulded. The body height of a metal sort defined thepoint size, and was usually slightly larger than the distance between theascender anddescender to allow additional space between the lines of text. More space might be achieved by inserting thin long pieces of lead between the lines of text (that isleading).

In digital fonts, the body is now a virtual, imaginary area, whose height still equals the point size as it did in metal type.^[1]

The distance between onebaseline and the next is the sum of the body height and theleading,often expressed as "characters per inch vertically" (as inRFC 678) or lines of text per inch (not to be confused withlines per inch, a measure of printed photograph resolution).

• Body (typography) – Virtual, imaginary area, the space in which a glyph is defined
• Em – Typographic unit equal to the point size
• En – Typographic unit equal to half an em
• Glyph – Purposeful written mark. In typography, the particular style of a grapheme.
• Grapheme – Smallest functional written unit. In typography, a character (letter, number, symbol, punctuation).
• Point (typography) – Measurement unit used in typography
• Small caps – Capital letters the height of a lowercase 'x'
• X-height – Measurement of letters in a typeface

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