Em (typography) (English Wikipedia)

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McKerrow, Ronald B. (1928). An Introduction To Bibliography For Literary Students (Second Impression ed.). Oxford: at the Clarendon Press. p. 13. Quads were no doubt originally square spaces, as broad as the height of a line. From the fact that the letter m (or M) used to be cast on a square body, such a square space is called an em-quad.
Moxon, Joseph (1683). Mechanick exercises: Or, the Doctrine of handy-works. Applied to the art of printing. London: Printed for Joseph Moxon on the west-side of Fleet-ditch, at the sign of Atlas. p. 99.

Blokland, Frank E. "em and en Squares". www.lettermodel.org. Retrieved 28 October 2022.

Phinney, Thomas (18 March 2011). "Point Size and the Em Square: Not What People Think". Retrieved 20 October 2014.

This alternative definition is shown in the Adobe Glossary and the Pocket Oxford Dictionary Third revised edition 1996.

Bringhurst, Robert (1992). The Elements of Typographic Style. Vancouver, BC: Hartley & Marks. pp. 25–26. ISBN 978-0-88179-033-7. OCLC 25411784.