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by mark-r 1560 days ago
px units are not actual pixels, they're a synthetic approximation. I don't remember the exact formula but I'm sure it's affected by font scaling the same as everything else.
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They're defined in terms of inches. I don't remember the fraction of an inch that a CSS pixel is.
I believe it's 1/96, while a point is 1/72.