small pica

noun

1. (formerly) a size of printer's type approximately equal to 11 point

Example Sentences

Types soon came to be made everywhere of uniform height; that of England and America being 92-100 of an inch, and became universally classified by names according to their sizes, as pica, small pica, long primer, minion, nonpareil, etc.

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His last work was a corrected edition of the Welsh Bible issued in small pica by the Bible Society.

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For my part, except where books smaller than an ordinary octavo are wanted, I would fight against anything smaller than pica; but at any rate small pica seems to me the smallest type that should be used in the body of any book.

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Pica is the type usually employed in Printing works of History, Biography, Travels, &c., in the Demy octavo size; Small Pica, in Novels, Romances, &c., in the Post octavo size; and Long Primer, Poetry, in the Foolscap octavo size.

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The type resembles our small pica, and the paper has the water-mark Auvergne 1749.

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