Table 1.

Letter sizes in Snellen chart and theoretical equivalent logMAR and letter score on ETDRS chart

Line Snellen Chart Theoretical Equivalents to Snellen Fraction

Optotypes Optotype Distance Optotype LogMAR ETDRS ETDRS ETDRS

height from height Letter chart chart
(mm) Chart (min arc) score equivalent equivalent
(mm) line at 1 line at 4
meter meter

1/60 A 85 1000 292 1.78 -4

2/60 A 85 2000 146 1.48 11

3/60 A 85 3000 97 1.30 20 4

4/60 A 85 4000 74 1.18 26

5/60 A 85 5000 58 1.08 31

6/60 A 85 6000 49 1.00 35 7 1

6/36 OE 57 6000 33 0.78 46

6/24 HLA 35 6000 20 0.60 55 11 5

6/18 NTCO 27 6000 15 0.48 61

6/12 HLAOT 18 6000 10 0.30 70 14 8

6/9 HTOLAE 13.5 6000 7.7 0.18 76

6/6 LNETHOA 9 6000 5.2 0.00 85 11

6/5 OTLHENAC 7 6000 4.0 -0.08 89

6/4 LHTOCNEA 6 6000 3.4 -0.18 94

Grey boxes: similar letter sizes between Snellen and ETDRS charts