Yeah that doesn’t really make sense. Print is always measured in physical units: pages, columns, inches, etc. Type can be adjusted to fill this much space, so t

Yeah that doesn’t really make sense. Print is always measured in physical units: pages, columns, inches, etc. Type can be adjusted to fill this much space, so the character and even word counts are somewhat flexible. There are of course limits to the amount of adjustment that can be made, but even with none at all, proportional fonts means exact character counts would not be the right unit of measure to ensure a piece of writing fit an allotted amount of space.