# The most fundamental question about pixels

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-most-fundamental-question-about-pixels/216570>\
**Category:** design\
**Created:** [February 18, 2007, 8:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-most-fundamental-question-about-pixels/216570 "2007-02-18T08:54:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ayman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Ayman](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Ayman)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2007, 8:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-most-fundamental-question-about-pixels/216570/1 "2007-02-18T08:54:24Z")

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I have a question, which might be funny to some of you …

A pixel on the screen … is it a hardware-wise component :look: … in other words, does its size on the screen remain the same no matter what happens?

Or does it change according to the configured resolution? I feel that I am very confused!!  
I always thought that a pixel has certain dimenions and never changes ,…

I dont even know what I wanted to ask anymore. All I want is someone to hit me on my head. 🥚