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Questions relating to different typefaces and their use in various Mathematica outputs, including graphics, notebooks and exported output.

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Discrepancy between the size of a font (specified by FontSize) and the generated size by "Sp...

On my screen at 150% magnification, your spacer seems to be about 50 printer's points in width. Your rotated capital letter "x" is a bit short. The documentation article ref/FontSize says: The size o …
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How I can get glyphs from a fraktur font and use them as identifiers?

From the documentation tutorial/InputSyntax That the above at most allows four hex digits for a character code restricts Unicode characters to the range 0000 – FFFF.
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Mathematica equivalent to HTML `code` or LaTeX `\texttt`

It will depend on what style sheet you use. In the Default style sheet you can select the text and hit the Cmnd+9 (OS x — I think it's Alt+9 on Windows). Here is an example.
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Letter g rendered with different descender styles

This is not an answer. It is a comment that includes an image. I am running V11.0.1 on OS X. I do not see the problem the OP is having. Suggest that it OS dependent and the question be tagged as Wind …
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Webdings are different on V10 vs V9. Why?

I'm running of OS X, and if I try Style[FromCharacterCode[6, "Webdings"], 24] I get Get::noopen: "Cannot open /Applications/Mathematica.10.app/SystemFiles/CharacterEncodings/Webdings.m. >>" …
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Shift text upwards in graphics so characters with descenders clear horizontal lines

The problem stems from the y-shift introduced by the 3rd argument to Text, which is in a different coordinate system from the main plot. You need to get rid of the y-shift in the 3rd argument and do t …
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Need better font control

For various reasons, mostly connected to poor eyesight, I frequently want to change window size and magnification. To make this convenient, I have built a palette that has buttons to set these frequen …
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Text with specified FontSize looks smaller than expected

As István Zachar noted in his comment, $DefaultFont is deprecated. Setting the BaseStyle option is the way to go. For example. I frequently set the following options. SetOptions[Graphics, BaseStyle - …
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Style changes between controls and graphics

Another way to do it; perhaps simpler than Jens method. Manipulate[Graphics[ {Style[Text["a", {0, 0}], Italic, 14]}, Axes -> False, PlotRange -> 3, ImageSize -> {100, 100}, GridLines -> None], …
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