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Fontsizes -- Larger and Smaller

Sometimes you might find a need to shrink items to make sure they fit in the page. This has especially applied to making tables because rows are too long.

For the official Overleaf documentation, click here.

\begin{INSERT}
    ...
\end{INSERT}

Replace INSERT with one of the following:

  • tiny
  • scriptsize
  • footnotesize
  • small
  • normalsize
  • large
  • Large
  • LARGE
  • huge
  • Huge

❗️ We recommend only using footnotesize or larger. Readability can be difficult at smaller levels, especially with equations and tables.

Unless needed or for emphasis, you should stick to the default size however.

Example

This text WON'T be affected

\begin{footnotesize}
    This text WILL be affected
    $This equation WILL be affected$
    This text WILL be affected
\end{footnotesize}

This text WON'T be affected

Directly using \fontsize

Alteratively, you can also use the command itself directly.

\tiny
\scriptsize
\footnotesize
\small
\normalsize
\large
\Large
\LARGE
\huge
\Huge

Note that this will propogate and continue until it hits the end of a {} bracket pair. When you use these, you should surround the area you want affected with {} brackets.

Example

this text WON'T be affect

{\tiny this text WILL be affected} this text WON'T be affect

this text WON'T be affect

Reference Images and Notes

The following code was used to compile the following PDF and images for reference. Click on any of the images to see the actual PDF.

\section{Font Comparison}

{\tiny REFERENCE TEXT reference text $\rightarrow$ Tiny size}\\
{\scriptsize REFERENCE TEXT reference text $\rightarrow$ scriptsize size}\\
{\footnotesize REFERENCE TEXT reference text $\rightarrow$ footnotesize size}\\
{\small REFERENCE TEXT reference text $\rightarrow$ small size}\\
{\normalsize REFERENCE TEXT reference text $\rightarrow$ normalsize size}\\
{\large REFERENCE TEXT reference text $\rightarrow$ large size}\\
{\Large REFERENCE TEXT reference text $\rightarrow$ Large size}\\
{\LARGE REFERENCE TEXT reference text $\rightarrow$ LARGE size}\\
{\huge REFERENCE TEXT reference text $\rightarrow$ huge size}\\
{\Huge REFERENCE TEXT reference text $\rightarrow$ Huge size}\\

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This is similar to how you would change font colour or font style. See here for font colour notes.