Make your own eye chart!

For those enterprising souls out there who would like to laserprint or draw by hand their own eye chart, or if
you would like to verify that your printout is of the correct proportions, here are the specs:

Distance (feet) 200 100 70 60 50 40 30 25 20 15 13 10 8

Distance (meter) 61.0 30.5 21.3 18.3 15.2 12.2 9.1 7.5 6.1 4.6 3.9 3.0 2.4
letter ht (mm) 88 44.0 30.8 26.4 22.0 17.6 13.2 11.1 8.8 6.6 5.6 4.4 3.6
letter ht (in) 3.5 1.73 1.2 1.0 0.9 0.7 0.5 0.35 0.26 0.17
letter ht (in) 3 ½ 1 3/4 1 2/9 1 7/8 5/7 1/2 1/3 1/4 1/6
letter ht (pt) 253 127 89 76 63 51 38 25 19 13
font size (pt) 454 227 152 130 108 87 65 43 33 21

Interpreting the table

"Distance" in the above table refers to the furthest distance from the chart at which a normal eye is able to read the letter. On a Snellen eye chart, rows of letters of a given size have the corresponding distance nu
Thus the row of 18mm letters is marked "40". The font must be Courier (or Courier Bold) in order for the "font size" in points to correspond to the indicated letter height. Courier Bold is the PostScript font that most c
the official Snellen letters.

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVXWYZ Arial
1234567890
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVXWYZ Arial Black
1234567890

letter ht (mm) 88 44.0 30.8 26.4 22.0 17.6 13.2 11.1 8.8 6.6 5.6 4.4 3.5
font size Arial (bol 358 179 122 106 90 70 53 45 32 25 22 16 14
hart, or if

6 7 5 4
1.8 2.1 1.5 1.2
2.5 3.1 2.2 1.8
0.12 0.09 0.07
1/8 7/81 5/72
9 6 5
15 11 9

given size have the corresponding distance number next to them.

t. Courier Bold is the PostScript font that most closely approximates

2.5 3.1 2.2 1.8

10 12 8 5