Centimeter (cm)
The centimeter is one hundredth of a meter and is useful for height, object sizes, clothing, and household measurement.
History: the centimeter spread with decimal metric prefixes as one hundredth of a meter.
Quickly convert centimeters to points without lookup tables or manual math.
This page is focused on converting centimeters to points. Type a number into the first field and the result appears immediately in the second field.
Example: 1 cm = 28.3464566929 pt. Conversion formula: result = value × 0.01 / 0.00035277777777778.
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The centimeter is one hundredth of a meter and is useful for height, object sizes, clothing, and household measurement.
History: the centimeter spread with decimal metric prefixes as one hundredth of a meter.
The point is a typographic unit for font size, line spacing, and print layout.
History: typographic points varied by country; digital publishing widely settled on the PostScript point of 1/72 inch.
Enter a value in the Centimeter field. The converter applies the formula "result = value × 0.01 / 0.00035277777777778" and immediately shows the result in points.
1 cm = 28.3464566929 pt.
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