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Originally Posted by Funkmaster5000

Thanks for your replies!
The font is called "Fixedsys", which is, indeed, 8x8 pixels in standard size (and also a quite common one in ASCII Art, because it is regular).

So the distance between lines and chars (in pixels) is still missing...

Originally Posted by Funkmaster5000

Thanks for your replies!
I simply don't grasp the connection between font size and it's size in pixels. So font size 12 means 8x8 pixels; font size 24 equals 16x16? I don't think so...

I think this is depending on the resolution (usually given in pixels per inch) of the display or printer.

That font size refers to "typographic points".

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_%28typography%29
(chapter "Current DTP point system"):

"The desktop publishing point (DTP point) is defined as 1/72 of the Anglo-Saxon compromise inch of 1959 (25.4 mm) which makes it 0.0138 inch or 0.3527 mm. Twelve points make up a pica, and six picas make an inch."

Long live the imperial units.

As a result, that gives the real size of the font on the display - independent of its pixel density.