What point (pt) font size are \Large etc.?
The font changing commands are often determined by the document class itself. For the standard classes (with size options in the first row), the values are as follows:
Command 10pt 11pt 12pt
\tiny 5 6 6
\scriptsize 7 8 8
\footnotesize 8 9 10
\small 9 10 10.95
\normalsize 10 10.95 12
\large 12 12 14.4
\Large 14.4 14.4 17.28
\LARGE 17.28 17.28 20.74
\huge 20.74 20.74 24.88
\Huge 24.88 24.88 24.88
Other classes (especially the major document classes such as KOMA and Memoir) may have different values. The following document will print out the font sizes for all the standard size changing commands. You can use it to check font sizes for other classes.
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\makeatletter
\newcommand\thefontsize[1]{{#1 The current font size is: \f@size pt\par}}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\sffamily
\thefontsize\tiny
\thefontsize\scriptsize
\thefontsize\footnotesize
\thefontsize\small
\thefontsize\normalsize
\thefontsize\large
\thefontsize\Large
\thefontsize\LARGE
\thefontsize\huge
\thefontsize\Huge
\end{document}
See also the source code of standard document classes.
In classes.dtx: 6.1 Fonts.
Or size10.clo
, size11.clo
and size12.clo
in $TEXMF/tex/latex/base/
.
For example, in size10.clo
:
\newcommand\small{%
\@setfontsize\small\@ixpt{11}%
\abovedisplayskip 8.5\p@ \@plus3\p@ \@minus4\p@
\abovedisplayshortskip \z@ \@plus2\p@
\belowdisplayshortskip 4\p@ \@plus2\p@ \@minus2\p@
\def\@listi{\leftmargin\leftmargini
\topsep 4\p@ \@plus2\p@ \@minus2\p@
\parsep 2\p@ \@plus\p@ \@minus\p@
\itemsep \parsep}%
\belowdisplayskip \abovedisplayskip
}
A short overview of font sizes in the »LaTeX2e Reference Manual« might be helpful.