CSS: How Large is a CSS Pixel?

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CSS: How Large is a CSS Pixel?

px, in practice, is 1/16 of default font size of a device.

px is defined as reference pixel, which is a visual angle of 0.0213 degrees. This means, the larger the screen, the larger is 1px.

px originally was the same size as a physical pixel of desktop displays in the 1990s.

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CSS Reference Pixel

CSS Spec on What is a Pixel

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Cascading Style Sheets Level 2 Revision 1 (CSS 2.1) Specification, Section 4.3.2 Lengths
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css spec on pixel. CSS Values and Units Module Level 4 Editor's Draft, 18 December 2023 https://drafts.csswg.org/css-values/#absolute-lengths
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