Font sizes (LaTeX2e unofficial reference manual (November 2018))

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### 4.3 Font sizes

The following standard type size commands are supported by LaTeX. The table shows the command name and the corresponding actual font size used (in points) with the ‘`10pt`’, ‘`11pt`’, and ‘`12pt`’ document size options, respectively (see Document class options).

Command | `10pt` | `11pt` | `12pt`
--- | --- | --- | ---
`\tiny` | 5 | 6 | 6
`\scriptsize` | 7 | 8 | 8
`\footnotesize` | 8 | 9 | 10
`\small` | 9 | 10 | 10.95
`\normalsize` (default) | 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

The commands are listed here in declaration forms. You use them by declaring them, as with this example.

    \begin{quotation} \small
      The Tao that can be named is not the eternal Tao.
    \end{quotation}

The scope of the `\small` lasts until the end of the `quotation` environment. It would also end at the next type style command or the end of the current group, so you could enclose it in extra curly braces `{\small We are here, we are here, we are here!}`. You can instead use the environment form of these commands; for instance, `\begin{tiny}...\end{tiny}`.

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