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Definition of Pica em
1. Noun. A linear unit (1/6 inch) used in printing.
Generic synonyms: Linear Measure, Linear Unit
Group relationships: In, Inch
Terms within: Point, En, Nut
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pica Em
Literary usage of Pica em
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Writing for the Press: A Manual by Robert Luce (1907)
"This line is set in pica, and JJ is the size of a pica em. Until about twenty
years ago, hardly any two type foundries agreed exactly in the sizes of their ..."
2. Writing for the Press: A Manual by Robert Luce (1907)
"This line is set in pica, and JJ* is the size of a pica em. Until about twenty
years ago, hardly any two type foundries agreed exactly in the sizes of their ..."
3. American Dictionary of Printing and Bookmaking: Containing a History of by Wesley Washington Pasko (1894)
"Set up as the first line a full row of pica em quadrats. Then take each size and
style of type in regular ortler, and set up of that size and style its full ..."
4. The Practice of Typography;...: Correct Composition, a Treatise on Spelling by Theodore Low De Vinne (1899)
"Their plan was to put every type, on all the bodies from agate to pica inclusive,
on some set which was an even division of the standard pica em. ..."
5. The Practice of Typography: A Treatise on the Processes of Type-making, the by Theodore Low De Vinne (1900)
"Their plan was to put every type, on all the bodies from agate to pica inclusive,
on some set which was an even division of the standard pica em. ..."
6. The Quinn & Boden Co., Book Manufacturers: Showing the Plant and Product by Quinn & Boden Company, Quinn and Boden Company, Rahway, N.J., The Quinn & Boden co., Rahway, N. J. (1922)
"Pica is also frequently used to designate what is more correctly termed a pica em.
pica em.—A square measuring twelve points on each side. Planer. ..."
7. Advertisers' Directory of Leading Publications by Fuller, Charles H., company, Charles H. Fuller, Co, Charles H. Fuller, company (1920)
"The pica em is the practical basis used by printers to express type measurements.
A pica em is equal to 12 points, or .16608 of an inch. ..."
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