LaTeX -- specify font point size?
From info latex
:
\fontsize{size}{skip}
Set font size. The first parameter is the font size to switch to; the second is the\baselineskip
to use. The unit of both parameters defaults to pt. A rule of thumb is that the baselineskip should be 1.2 times the font size.
As @frabjous noted, you'll need to add \selectfont
afterwards to make it kick in.
There are a couple of LaTeX packages available that provide for additional font sizes:
The moresize
package offers additional commands to have a broader range (\HUGE
, \ssmall
), whereas extsizes
extends the standard LaTeX classes by additional class options (8pt
, ... 20pt
for the base font, so that all fonts in the document become smaller or bigger, but remain their relative difference. Advanced document classes (memoir, but especially the KOMA-Skript bundle) provide built-in capabilities for flexible font sizes.