# Reporting the font size

**URL:** <https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/reporting-the-font-size/19537>\
**Category:** Builder\
**Tags:** font, pavlovia\
**Created:** [January 11, 2021, 1:21pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/reporting-the-font-size/19537 "2021-01-11T13:21:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 15, 2021, 2:12am UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/reporting-the-font-size/19537/4 "2021-01-15T02:12:24Z")

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Ah, OK, that makes a lot of difference. If it is important to you, then you could get the participants to go through a screen-scaling process, using an object of known size, like a credit card:

> [@Consistent image size across screens](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/consistent-image-size-across-screens/12517/12):
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> You can use my Screen Scale routine. It uses a credit card and then displays a square using height or norm units.

But if the detail is important, then yes, just say that the font was scaled so that the maximum height of any letter did not exceed 4% of the height of the screen. NB, most readers won’t know what “height = 0.08” means as the setting is PsychoPy-specific, so you need to spell out its meaning (and to be interpretable, halve it to 0.04, as explained in that units page).

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