How to get an even smaller font?
A quick-and-dirty possibility for converting almost anything to a different size is to use graphicx
's \resizebox
or \scalebox
. In your instance, if line-breaking is not a consideration, you can use
\usepackage{graphicx}% http://ctan.org/pkg/graphicx
%...
Normal {\tiny tiny} \scalebox{.2}{supertiny}
The above view is zoomed to 400%. You can modify the scaling factor .2
to whatever you're interested in.
The size changing commands don't have a cumulative effect, so you simply get \tiny
. Recall that the size chosen would be 5pt if the main size for the document is 10pt. Under 5pt characters are barely legible.
Here's an example:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\begin{document}
Normal {\tiny Tiny} {\fontsize{2.5}{4}\selectfont Supertiny}
\end{document}
Notice that the image here is magnified. Without lmodern
or a package that chooses a scalable font you wouldn't get "supertiny", unless you load the fix-cm
package.
If you do not need large font sizes, too, the easiest way is to use a document class that supports an arbitrary size for the main font, such as scrartcl
, the article class from the KOMA-Script bundle:
\documentclass[fontsize=6pt]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\begin{document}
\rule{2pt}{12pt}12pt\rule{2pt}{12pt} Normal 6pt {\tiny Tiny 3pt}
\end{document}
The height of the bars represents 12pt.