diff --git a/src/cards/gist.js b/src/cards/gist.js
index 62910420ad2f5..5c3ec53d77fa8 100644
--- a/src/cards/gist.js
+++ b/src/cards/gist.js
@@ -66,10 +66,16 @@ const renderGistCard = (gistData, options = {}) => {
       theme,
     });
 
-  const lineWidth = 59;
+  const lineWidth = 360; // px — card width (400) - x offset (25) - right margin (15)
+  const fontSize = 13; // px — must match the .description font-size
   const linesLimit = 10;
   const desc = parseEmojis(description || "No description provided");
-  const multiLineDescription = wrapTextMultiline(desc, lineWidth, linesLimit);
+  const multiLineDescription = wrapTextMultiline(
+    desc,
+    lineWidth,
+    linesLimit,
+    fontSize,
+  );
   const descriptionLines = multiLineDescription.length;
   const descriptionSvg = multiLineDescription
     .map((line) => `<tspan dy="1.2em" x="25">${encodeHTML(line)}</tspan>`)
diff --git a/src/cards/repo.js b/src/cards/repo.js
index a9c2afc38a222..4c9b900e86858 100644
--- a/src/cards/repo.js
+++ b/src/cards/repo.js
@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ import {
 import { repoCardLocales } from "../translations.js";
 
 const ICON_SIZE = 16;
-const DESCRIPTION_LINE_WIDTH = 59;
+const DESCRIPTION_LINE_WIDTH = 360; // px — card width (400) - x offset (25) - right margin (15)
+const DESCRIPTION_FONT_SIZE = 13; // px — must match the .description font-size
 const DESCRIPTION_MAX_LINES = 3;
 
 /**
@@ -91,6 +92,7 @@ const renderRepoCard = (repo, options = {}) => {
     desc,
     DESCRIPTION_LINE_WIDTH,
     descriptionMaxLines,
+    DESCRIPTION_FONT_SIZE,
   );
   const descriptionLinesCount = description_lines_count
     ? clampValue(description_lines_count, 1, DESCRIPTION_MAX_LINES)
diff --git a/src/common/fmt.js b/src/common/fmt.js
index 5820b53e3f078..7ba9a7877ace6 100644
--- a/src/common/fmt.js
+++ b/src/common/fmt.js
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 import wrap from "word-wrap";
 import { encodeHTML } from "./html.js";
+import { measureText } from "./render.js";
 
 /**
  * Retrieves num with suffix k(thousands) precise to given decimal places.
@@ -55,12 +56,17 @@ const formatBytes = (bytes) => {
 /**
  * Split text over multiple lines based on the card width.
  *
+ * When `fontSize` is provided, `width` is treated as a pixel budget and lines
+ * are broken using {@link measureText} for font-proportional accuracy.
+ * Otherwise `width` is a character count and the `word-wrap` library is used.
+ *
  * @param {string} text Text to split.
- * @param {number} width Line width in number of characters.
+ * @param {number} width Line width — pixels when `fontSize` is set, characters otherwise.
  * @param {number} maxLines Maximum number of lines.
+ * @param {number} [fontSize] Font size in px.  Enables pixel-width wrapping.
  * @returns {string[]} Array of lines.
  */
-const wrapTextMultiline = (text, width = 59, maxLines = 3) => {
+const wrapTextMultiline = (text, width = 59, maxLines = 3, fontSize) => {
   const fullWidthComma = "，";
   const encoded = encodeHTML(text);
   const isChinese = encoded.includes(fullWidthComma);
@@ -69,6 +75,24 @@ const wrapTextMultiline = (text, width = 59, maxLines = 3) => {
 
   if (isChinese) {
     wrapped = encoded.split(fullWidthComma); // Chinese full punctuation
+  } else if (fontSize) {
+    // Pixel-width wrapping: measure raw text so HTML entities (e.g. &#8212;
+    // for —) are counted as single rendered glyphs, not multiple characters.
+    const words = text.split(/\s+/).filter(Boolean);
+    let currentLine = "";
+
+    for (const word of words) {
+      const testLine = currentLine ? `${currentLine} ${word}` : word;
+      if (measureText(testLine, fontSize) > width && currentLine) {
+        wrapped.push(encodeHTML(currentLine));
+        currentLine = word;
+      } else {
+        currentLine = testLine;
+      }
+    }
+    if (currentLine) {
+      wrapped.push(encodeHTML(currentLine));
+    }
   } else {
     wrapped = wrap(encoded, {
       width,
diff --git a/src/common/render.js b/src/common/render.js
index 594abaa549679..4e9f3a5c9a04a 100644
--- a/src/common/render.js
+++ b/src/common/render.js
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ const renderError = ({
 };
 
 /**
- * Retrieve text length.
+ * Retrieve text length based on Segoe UI font.
  *
  * @see https://stackoverflow.com/a/48172630/10629172
  * @param {string} str String to measure.
@@ -197,27 +197,10 @@ const renderError = ({
 const measureText = (str, fontSize = 10) => {
   // prettier-ignore
   const widths = [
-    0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
-    0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
-    0, 0, 0, 0, 0.2796875, 0.2765625,
-    0.3546875, 0.5546875, 0.5546875, 0.8890625, 0.665625, 0.190625,
-    0.3328125, 0.3328125, 0.3890625, 0.5828125, 0.2765625, 0.3328125,
-    0.2765625, 0.3015625, 0.5546875, 0.5546875, 0.5546875, 0.5546875,
-    0.5546875, 0.5546875, 0.5546875, 0.5546875, 0.5546875, 0.5546875,
-    0.2765625, 0.2765625, 0.584375, 0.5828125, 0.584375, 0.5546875,
-    1.0140625, 0.665625, 0.665625, 0.721875, 0.721875, 0.665625,
-    0.609375, 0.7765625, 0.721875, 0.2765625, 0.5, 0.665625,
-    0.5546875, 0.8328125, 0.721875, 0.7765625, 0.665625, 0.7765625,
-    0.721875, 0.665625, 0.609375, 0.721875, 0.665625, 0.94375,
-    0.665625, 0.665625, 0.609375, 0.2765625, 0.3546875, 0.2765625,
-    0.4765625, 0.5546875, 0.3328125, 0.5546875, 0.5546875, 0.5,
-    0.5546875, 0.5546875, 0.2765625, 0.5546875, 0.5546875, 0.221875,
-    0.240625, 0.5, 0.221875, 0.8328125, 0.5546875, 0.5546875,
-    0.5546875, 0.5546875, 0.3328125, 0.5, 0.2765625, 0.5546875,
-    0.5, 0.721875, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 0.3546875, 0.259375, 0.353125, 0.5890625,
+    0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0.2733333110809326,0.28499999046325686,0.39166667461395266,0.5900000095367431,0.5383333206176758,0.8183333396911621,0.8,0.22999999523162842,0.30166666507720946,0.30166666507720946,0.41666665077209475,0.6833333492279052,0.21666667461395264,0.4,0.21666667461395264,0.3900000095367432,0.5383333206176758,0.5383333206176758,0.5383333206176758,0.5383333206176758,0.5383333206176758,0.5383333206176758,0.5383333206176758,0.5383333206176758,0.5383333206176758,0.5383333206176758,0.21666667461395264,0.21666667461395264,0.6833333492279052,0.6833333492279052,0.6833333492279052,0.4483333110809326,0.9550000190734863,0.6449999809265137,0.5733333110809327,0.6183333396911621,0.7016666889190674,0.5066666603088379,0.48833332061767576,0.6866666793823242,0.7099999904632568,0.26666667461395266,0.35666666030883787,0.5800000190734863,0.4699999809265137,0.8983333587646485,0.7483333110809326,0.753333330154419,0.5599999904632569,0.753333330154419,0.5983333110809326,0.5316666603088379,0.5233333110809326,0.6866666793823242,0.621666669845581,0.9333333015441895,0.5900000095367431,0.553333330154419,0.5699999809265137,0.30166666507720946,0.37833333015441895,0.30166666507720946,0.6833333492279052,0.41500000953674315,0.26833333969116213,0.5083333492279053,0.5883333206176757,0.4616666793823242,0.5883333206176757,0.5233333110809326,0.3133333444595337,0.5883333206176757,0.5666666507720948,0.24166667461395264,0.24166667461395264,0.49666666984558105,0.24166667461395264,0.8616666793823242,0.5666666507720948,0.5866666793823242,0.5883333206176757,0.5883333206176757,0.3483333349227905,0.425,0.33833334445953367,0.5666666507720948,0.4783333301544189,0.7233333110809326,0.45833334922790525,0.4833333492279053,0.45166668891906736,0.30166666507720946,0.24000000953674316,0.30166666507720946,0.6833333492279052
   ];
 
-  const avg = 0.5279276315789471;
+  const avg = 0.5131403493881227;
   return (
     str
       .split("")
diff --git a/tests/renderGistCard.test.js b/tests/renderGistCard.test.js
index c397281a561bc..7aa85d0d97431 100644
--- a/tests/renderGistCard.test.js
+++ b/tests/renderGistCard.test.js
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ describe("test renderGistCard", () => {
 
     expect(
       document.getElementsByClassName("description")[0].children[1].textContent,
-    ).toBe("English-language pangram—a sentence that contains all");
+    ).toBe("English-language pangram—a sentence that contains all of the");
   });
 
   it("should not trim description if it is short", () => {
diff --git a/tests/renderRepoCard.test.js b/tests/renderRepoCard.test.js
index 9fb5ab36c90de..745e3ec87623d 100644
--- a/tests/renderRepoCard.test.js
+++ b/tests/renderRepoCard.test.js
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ describe("Test renderRepoCard", () => {
 
     expect(
       document.getElementsByClassName("description")[0].children[1].textContent,
-    ).toBe("English-language pangram—a sentence that contains all");
+    ).toBe("English-language pangram—a sentence that contains all of the");
 
     // Should not trim
     document.body.innerHTML = renderRepoCard({
diff --git a/tests/renderStatsCard.test.js b/tests/renderStatsCard.test.js
index cd84a3f0f1e2a..e465272f7425c 100644
--- a/tests/renderStatsCard.test.js
+++ b/tests/renderStatsCard.test.js
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ describe("Test renderStatsCard", () => {
     });
     expect(document.querySelector("svg")).toHaveAttribute(
       "width",
-      "305.81250000000006",
+      "299.9666657447815",
     );
 
     // Test minimum card width with rank and icons.
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ describe("Test renderStatsCard", () => {
     });
     expect(document.querySelector("svg")).toHaveAttribute(
       "width",
-      "322.81250000000006",
+      "316.9666657447815",
     );
 
     // Test minimum card width with icons but without rank.
@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ describe("Test renderStatsCard", () => {
 
     expect(
       document.body.getElementsByTagName("svg")[0].getAttribute("width"),
-    ).toBe("305.81250000000006");
+    ).toBe("299.9666657447815");
   });
 
   it("should auto resize if hide_rank is true & custom_title is set", () => {