Type setting, heading and body scale

Type-scale page giving heading and bodycopy size, tracking and line-height values across six steps in two parallel tables.

Styleminimal, swiss, technical, data-dense, light-mode

Colorlight, monochrome

Typesans-serif

Moodtechnical, professional

Industryagency, media

Tagstypography, type-scale, hierarchy, tracking, line-height, table, bilingual

Palette

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#000000

Summary

The type-scale spec: two parallel tables, Heading and Bodycopy, each stepping down through six sizes with exact size, tracking and line-height values (for example Heading 60pt / 0 / 60, Bodycopy 48pt / 0 / 60).

Visual description

White page. A short note sits far-left in English over Chinese (parameters for real-world use, may vary). The body is two side-by-side tables. The left table, "Heading 標題字", shows specimen words (HEAD, HEADING, HEADING 2ND LINE) shrinking down six rows, each with columns for Size, Tracking and Line-height (60pt/0/60 down to 18pt/25/21). The right table, "Bodycopy 內文字", mirrors it (BODY, BODYCOPY shrinking) with its own values (48pt/0/60 down to 12pt/50/14). Hairline rules separate the rows. Black on white, tabular and dense.

Key takeaway

Pairing live shrinking specimens with exact size/tracking/line-height columns turns an abstract type scale into a directly applicable spec. Splitting heading and body into parallel tables keeps the two hierarchies legible at a glance.

Reuse notes

The practical heart of a typography section. Always give size, tracking and leading together. Reuse the specimen-plus-values table for any documented type scale; note how tracking increases as size decreases.