Photoshop font size too small at 11px

[adawnwolf]

I draw web comics and the my editor and the web community suggests having 9-11px font for your comic. But the issue is that my version of photoshop shows their 11px font as 45.83px. Is there a way to correct this so it's easier to communicate with my team when it comes to font sizes? Make it so that I see 11px on my end if my editor changes the font to 11px on their PC?
If I change the font to 11px on my end, the font is incredibly small. 
At the moment I have to open something like Affinity Photo [weblink removed] to work on text for the comic panels so I can communicate with my editor easier when we discuss font sizes. 

I use Adobe Photoshop 2022 (23.4.2) on Windows 11 & 10 (mostly on my windows 11 MobileStudio Pro) at 300ppi. My editor is using Photoshop CS6 on a Windows 11. 

[Chris 486]

It sounds like they want the final product to be a webfont size of 9-11px? What is the current size of your canvas and what do you need to size it down to? If you know the percent change you can just scale your font appropriately and it will be correct when you export.

[Bojan Živković]

If you want to see 11 points equal to 11px then document resolution should be set to 72ppi. This must be done by another side before setting 11pt size and before sending you file. If you change to existing document PPI to 72 it won't autoimatically scale, you must do manual work.

[adawnwolf]

Final product is for print, so it needs to be 300 dpi.

[adawnwolf]

Size is as shown. 7x10.5" with resolution of 300. It's a web comic, but also has to be made for print.

[Test Screen Name]

A given file is either for print or for web. It cannot be both at the same time. Generally you'd work at the higher resolution, and reduce the size when making a web comic. So, you need to work at your print resolution. In this case be absolutely sure NOT to follow recommendations for font size that were made for web comics - the font will (as you've found) be 400% wrong.

Clear communication with your team is important but it needs to cover all the aspects not just the font, and describe the process of converting for web use. Reducing a high resolution design has the potential to seriously degrade the type, so be sure to field test this thoroughly.

[adawnwolf]

So in the current version of Photoshop, there is no way to get it to show font size as size 12px like you did in older version when the file size is at a resolution or size for print? Because it's showing on older versions as 12px when the ppi is 300 and the document size is intended for print. 

[Semaphoric]

I think the problem is you are specifying your type size in pixels, but your editor is working in points. In your example, 45.83 pixels divided by 300 pixels per inch times 72 points per inch equals 11 points.