[zetanor]

That's why my favorite unit is the px, a.k.a., 1 centiinch.

[JimDabell]

CSS pixels are weirder:

http://inamidst.com/stuff/notes/csspx

[fluidcruft]

I thought px was an abbreviation of pixel which doesn't have a dimension?

[Tagbert]

Pixels have pitch, which is the distance between pixels. That is what is usually meant when talking about px as a measurement. It is analogous to dpi or ppi or the metric version.

[ethmarks]

Does the pitch describe the distance between the edges of the pixels or between the centers?

[aptly_yclept]

To expand on what the previous said, here's a link to a seminal paper on pixels - "A pixel is not a little square" by Alvy Ray Smith. https://alvyray.com/Memos/CG/Microsoft/6_pixel.pdf

[Tagbert]

center to center.