Font size in Photoshop document looks larger than it should be?

I am designing a web site in Photoshop. No matter what font I use, the size looks too big. For example, I have to make my font size 6px in my photoshop document even though the actual font size i'm going to use on the website is 11px. My document size is 1024px by 768px. I am viewing at 100% and my screen resolution is set to 72 px/in. I have asked my instructor and he doesn't have this problem but doesn't know how to fix mine. Is there something in my preference i should change? I would really like to be able to use the actual font size in my document as I would for my actual site.
Also, this happens in both of my PC and the Mac at school. Let me know if there are other information I need to say. Thank you in advance!

Aside from what Noel said, keep in mind that font size covers the em box of a font, meaning its maximum upper and lower height, not just the visible content and that that relation is different for each font. In order to e.g. produce a 11px high glyph on a 72dpi device, the actual font may be designed with 14pt in mind and you will have to use that size.
Mylenium

Similar Messages

  • Why does my background pic look larger than it should and is not as clear as the original?

    When islet a pic as background it says I can adjust size, but cannot in fact the pic gets larger and not as clear, this started with IOS7

    This is due to the parallax effect in iOS 7. As you tilt the phone to the left or right, the background image moves with it, to give the home screen an illusion of depth.

  • Font sizes between  Photoshop and Edge - Any Accurate conversion table?

    I have been trying to make sense of the font sizes between  Photoshop and Edge. It seems that the conversion tables I have found do not actually give the right numbers and I am wondering if there is a table from Adobe that would make it easy to have the right size rather than an approximation.
    I prefer to use text in Edge rather than Photoshop for many different reasons one being dynamic text.
    For example a font in Photoshop in a 780 x 475 image is 8pt - In Edge, according to conversion tables it should be 11 px but it is totally wrong. It needs to be closer to 30 px to be about the same.
    So, Adobe Team, any documentation on that?

    By the way, I have to correct the numbers but they still do not make too much sense. The artist gave me a 300 dpi file so of course the px size what wrong. After converting the file to 72 dpi, the font size happens to be 33.33 pt or 40 px which is now way too big in Edge.  It looks like the size my just be the same 33.33 pt would be 33.33 px. Is this correct?

  • Font size with Photoshop and Dreamweaver

    Hi everybody!
    I design my mockups in Photoshop and then copy them over to DWCC with hand code and slicing images. It is perfectly fine accuracy wise because I  measure everything out. One thing that I am having issues with would be fonts. For example, I insert a text box in PS and start typing. When I set the font size to 12pt, it is rather large. So, in DWCC when I am typing out the same text and set it to 12pt, it is not accurate. The size in PS is much larger than it is in DWCC. Am I missing something? Thanks a ton.

    PT is a print size.  There's no reason to use PT fonts on the web unless you're building a print style sheet that will determine how text is printed on paper.
    On the web we typically use screen fonts in  %, em, rem or px font sizes.  If you're building a responsive site, start with %.  100% = the browser's default font size which in most cases is about 16px.
    Nancy O.

  • How do I change the font size of a document when I PRINT?

    How to I change the font size of a document when I print it?

    To specifically and fully answer your question, no, you absolutely cannot change the “font size” as a function of print.
    First of all, there isn't a single “font size” associated with a PDF file (and we assume you are referring to a PDF file since this is an Acrobat forum).
    Secondly, PDF is a final form file format meaning that the content is static in terms of location, size, etc. on the page. To change the point size of any particular text, you really need to go back to the source document and make the changes there.
              - Dov

  • The photoshop window is larger than my computer screen. How do I resize it horizontally so that the bottom is visible?

    The photoshop window is larger than my computer screen. How do I resize it so I can see the bottom controls? I tried dragging the corner, but it only moves vertically. I need the horizontal to move so I can see the bottom of the window.

    Which version of photoshop and operating system are you using?
    On a mac, did you try clicking on the Green Maximize button?
    On a windows os did you try the Maximize button at the top right of the photoshop window?

  • Text appearance in adobe acrobat (pro) files displays inconsistently unless you zoom in. Mainly 'i's and 'l's look bigger than they should.

    Text appearance in adobe acrobat (pro) files displays inconsistently unless you zoom in. Mainly 'i's and 'l's look bigger than they should.
    The pdfs print fine though.

    Try doing a spotlight search for all files that start with AdobeFnt. They will be named AdobefntXX.lst, with the XX being some number. They will be scattered across the drive... After making sure that all Adobe applications are closed, trash all the adobefntxx.lst files, those with the 3 letter extension .lst.
    Then, restart the system, and open the files in Acrobat again.
    Otherwise, what happens in Safe boot? (Remember, Safe boot loads only a default set of fonts.) If they display fine there, the problem most likely is a font issue, one of the fonts that Adobe installed.
    Check Adobe's web support page for troubleshooting Fonts.
    - or -
    Contact Adobe about the whole issue, it is after all, Adobe Acrobat... Adobe's contact number is 800 833 6687.

  • User Interface is larger than it should be, how can we fix this?

    Our marketing director is experiencing an issues with her UI for Acrobat.  Her view of the overall UI is twice as large as it should be.  We uninstalled and checked her preferences but nothing has changed, everything up in the tool bar and stickies are larger than it should be, does anyone have any suggestions or fix's for this matter?
    Thanks,
    Billy

    Hi Billy,
    I suspect the text size in the system's control panel is 150%?
    She can simply go to Acrobat preferences -> General -> Then change the "Scale for screen resolution" to 100%. This will force the UI to run at 100% like it did before.
    Please let me know if this works.
    Thanks,
    Luc

  • SAP BW Key figures displayed 100 times larger than it should

    Dear all,
    I'm using Crystal Reports 2008 SP2 und SAP Intetegration Kit X3.1 SP2 to create a report upon a BW Query (7.01). Several key figures are displayed exactly 100 times larger than it should. Only the formatted value  is displayed correctly.
    Is anyone familiar to this phenomenon?
    best regards,
    madadm

    Solved:
    the regional settings of the client machine have to match the servers' .This have been hard times...

  • Font size in Photoshop looks totally different in Web

    Hello,
    i have a very strange problem. Im using Photoshop CS6 right now to make some modifications to my website.
    We are using font type Arial 12pt in the PSD file and also Arial 12pt in the web. But in the web the font looks much bigger than in the psd file.
    When we save the PSD as a JPG file in browser and compare it to the website the fonts of the JPG file look fine but in the web they look much bigger.
    It seems we have to use 12px in the Web so it will look same like 12pt in PSD.
    But im very confused by this. How is that possible? Or what are we doing wrong?
    thanks

    The web runs on pixels, not point. Depending on the default browser font size, system font sizes and a million factors the dynamically rendered type in the browser can always look different. Even assuming 72 dpi isn't exactly true any longer due to high-DPI displays and browsers using other logic internally. that and of course the CSS formatting on the web site can override certain things as well... Complicated subject with no easy answers. Generally you should expect that it will look off more than expecting it to look right under all conditions. Therefore make up your mind how you render certain texts and don't intermingle image-based text them too much with normal text.
    Mylenium

  • Reduce font size in a document.

    Hello guys. I've a bit of a problem here. So I have this document downloaded from the internet and I have to print it out but the problem is that it's text size is way too large due to which it is spanning over about 275 pages. Is there any possible way to reduce font size of certain elements which keeping their relative sizes? For example, headings should stay the same but paragraphs should be reduced to about 12px.
    I'm using Acrobat X Pro.

    PDF files were not meant to be edited in this way. For such large-scale
    changes you'll need to edit the original source file, and then re-create
    the PDF.

  • Embed fonts in a Photoshop document?

    A friend has sent me a photoshop document to work on but i dont have all the fonts he does. Its a pain trying to find and download them all.
    Is there a way of embedding fonts in a document so he could send me the file and I could edit the text?
    I guess this isn't a photoshop question but if he sends me the fonts I need from his font folder in his library, should that work?
    thanks a lot
    James

    In theory he could send you those fonts as long as you delete them after working on his job.
    Edit:
    I write this because of all the Service Bureaus that you give your fonts to for output I realize that with submitting PDFs this becomes unnecessary.
    As long as he uses the fonts only on that one job, especially if they were bought for that job does it matter who does the work?
    they would need to be deleted after the work was completed, just like at a Service Bureau.

  • I cannot change my font size in photoshop?

    I am unable to change the font size in PS, if I shut down everything and restart, sometimes it will help, but I cannot do this all the time.  I use Mac,  I called help last week, they deleted my preferences and made new folder, but it did not seem to help, anyone know a fix for this?  Thank you

    When you reset Preferences, did you see the following dialog box, and click Yes?
    Can you confirm that Preferences is definitely reset?  Try making some changes.  Restart Photoshop and open Preferences to see if the change you made survived the restart — to test that the Preferences file is not corrupted and read only.

  • How do you increase the font size on Photoshop menu?

    I can barely read the Photoshop menu - it is like microfiche - how do you increase the size of the fonts in the menu?

    click edit>preferences>interface>ui font size.
    restart ps to see the changes.

  • My font app store in iPad look bigger than usual and I can't download anything neither update my apps

    My font app store look bigger than usual
    How can I return it to normal?
    I can't download anything and updating my apps
    I already reset setting but it cannot help
    It still look bigger

    If pinching the screen does not work, try shutting down the app in the task bar.
    Double tap the home button, press and hold the app store app untill it wiggles. Press the red dot to close.
    Tap the home button again.
    Other things to try:
    Make sure IOS is updated to latest version
    Reboot device by pressing both the home button and sleep/wake (power) buttons at the same time for 10-15 seconds until the apple logo appears on the screen, then let go.
    If that doesn't work then reset the device by going to settings/general/reset/reset all settings
    (no media or data will be deleted from the device, this will only take a minute).

Maybe you are looking for