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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Aug 27.
Published in final edited form as: J Vis. 2011 Aug 9;11(5):10.1167/11.5.8 8. doi: 10.1167/11.5.8

Table 3.

Headline Print Sizes (x-heights) in Newspapers

Text Range Mean Standard Deviation
Newspaper Headlines (largest) 0.56° – 4.42° VA
(3.96 – 31.2 mm)
[11.22 – 88.44 pts]		 1.71° VA
(12.06 mm)
[34.19 pts]		 0.46
(3.26)
[9.25]
Newspaper Headlines (smallest) 0.45° – 1.05° VA
(3.18 – 7.4 mm)
[9.0 – 21.0 pts]		 0.76° VA
(5.38 mm)
[15.24 pts]		 0.14
(0.98)
[2.77]
Newspaper Subheads 0.26° – 0.9° VA
1.85 – 6.35 mm
[5.25 – 18.0 pts]		 0.43° VA
(3.06 mm)
[8.67 pts]		 0.11
(0.78)
[2.22]
Newspaper Running Text 0.2° – 0.26° VA
(1.41 – 1.85 mm)
[3.98 – 5.25 pts]		 0.23° VA
(1.64 mm)
[4.65 pts]		 0.01
(0.07)
[0.2]