What is 59pt in Millimetres?

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What is 59 Points (59pt) in Millimetres (mm)?

What is 59pt in mm? Convert 59 Points (59pt) to Millimetres (mm) and show formula, brief history on the units and quick maths for the conversion.

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Quick Reference for Converting Points to Millimetres

Formula
mm = pt / 2.85
Quick Rough Maths
To get the Millimetres, divide the number of Points by 2.8
Points (pt) in 1 Millimetre
There are 2.85 Points in 1 Millimetre
Millimetres (mm) in 1 Point
There are 0.35 Millimetres in 1 Point

Unit Information

Point
/pɔɪnt/
Symbol: pt
Unit System: Typography

What is the Point?

The point is a unit of length in the field of typography and uses the symbol pt.

It is the smallest unit in the world of typography. There are 12 points in a pica.

In physical printing methods / press systems, the point size is the height of the metal press body on which the font's letters are made. When applied to the digital type space, letters are designed around a theoretical size, an em square which is scaled to the relative point size (when specified of course!).

Millimetre
/ˈmɪlɪmiːtə/
Symbol: mm
Unit System: SI

What is the Millimetre?

The millimetre (American spelling millimeter) is a unit of length and is a multiple of the SI unit metre. It uses the symbol mm.

There are 1000 mm in 1 m and 10 mm in 1 cm. From this one can derive that there are 0.03937 in.

The millimetre is sometimes verbally abbreviated to 'mil' - which can cause confusion in the US as there is a unit there that means thousandth of an inch.


Conversion Tables for Points (pt) to Millimetres (mm)