User:Zoeannl/Project guideline/Proofreader’s Guide/Font size
When a whole section of a publication is in a smaller size e.g. Correspondence, Subscriptions; we would keep the text at normal size as this is usually a space saving device for the publishers which we don’t need to follow. When the size of text changes to define different parts of a text, e.g. quotations or poetry, we follow the publishers lead.
If you want a bigger font size, or a smaller size, that's easy.
If you want {{larger|a bigger font size}}, or a {{smaller|smaller size}}, that's easy.
We don't use absolutes, like "large" so as to make reading text easier whatever the size of the device, but there are even bigger and huge size available, as well as even smaller and tiny.
We don't use absolutes, like "large" so as to make reading text easier whatever the size of the device, but there are {{x-larger|even bigger}} and {{xx-larger|huge}} size available, as well as {{x-smaller|even smaller}} and {{xx-smaller|tiny}}.
For font sizes that are less than 100%, the following list of templates were designed to have line heights proportional to the font size. So the lines of text are closer or further from each other if the font is smaller or larger, respectively. The number indicates the % reduction in size e.g. fs90=90% normal size font.
{{fine block/s}}/{{fine block/e}}
{{smaller block/s}}/{{smaller block/e}}
{{line-height}}
Examples of proportional font sizes[edit]
- {{fs90/s}} {{fs90/e}} used to enclose a block of paragraphs and/or span pages. When used to span pages, the {{fs90/e}} is placed in the footer of the first page, to terminate the block and {{fs90/s}} is placed in the header of the following page to begin the new block. This way the transcluded text in the main namespace will be enclosed with a single set of templates because headers and footers are excluded.
Examples of Block font templates[edit]
- {{fs85}} 85% font size and 100% line height.
- {{fs75}} 75% font size and 95% line height.
- {{fs70}} 70% font size and 90% line height. - Used inline to match the line height of fraction templates {{fs70|{{over|n|d}}}} and {{fs70|{{frac|n|d}}}}. nd and n⁄d
More: 100% and smaller font size and style comparisons table.