I have a table and it appears I only have two options when it comes to font size: large and small. There should be a medium option, correct? I get an error when I replace small or large with medium.

The beginning of my table looks like this:


How do I get a universal font size for the table that is not huge or too small to read?


There's no \medium font size between \small and \large; you have \normalsize (which is the default font size). The standard font size switches are: \tiny, \scriptsize, \footnotesize, \small, \normalsize, \large, \Large, \LARGE, \huge, and \Huge.

By the way, you only need one font switch command inside the table and braces are not required since table forms a group, so you can simply say something like this:

text & text & text
  • Is there any font size between \tiny and \small? Is there a way to manually set the font size somehow maybe? \tiny is too small to read. \small is too large (it is the same as the normal font size). Thanks – Veridian Aug 13 '13 at 0:18
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    @sphere: yes: \scriptsize, and \footnotesize. Also, for even finer control, as long as the current font supports the desired size, you can use \fontsize{<size>}{<baseline>}\selectfont (in a group); as in {\fontsize{6}{7.2}\selectfont text here}. – Gonzalo Medina Aug 13 '13 at 0:21
  • Can I put that wrapper around an entire table? – Veridian Aug 13 '13 at 0:40
  • @sphere environments create a group, so inside a table environment you can say, for example \begin{table}\fontsize{6}{7.2}\selectfont...\end{table}. – Gonzalo Medina Aug 13 '13 at 0:43
  • I tried your last comment and only some of my text got resized. – Veridian Aug 14 '13 at 0:53

If you need to fine tune the size of a table, you can include it in a scaleboxfrom the graphicx- or graphics-package and scale the table to fit. If you need more options, you can use the adjustbox-package.

A warning: Arbitrary adjustments of different tables will result in different font sizes. This may look ugly.

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    @LéoLéopoldHertz준영 Fixed! Thank you for making me aware of this. – Sveinung Aug 9 '17 at 9:24

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