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FontSize

is an option for Style and Cell that specifies the default size in printer's points of the font in which to render text.

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FontSize

FontSize

is an option for Style and Cell that specifies the default size in printer's points of the font in which to render text.

Details

  • The size of a font is typically taken to be the distance from the top of the highest character to the bottom of the lowest character.
  • A printer's point is approximately of an inch.
  • Fonts with the same nominal point size may not look the same size to the eye.
  • In graphics, FontSize->Scaled[s] gives a font whose point size is a fraction s of the horizontal plot range.

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Basic Examples  (1)

Specify the font size in printer's points:

Wolfram Language code: Table[Text[Style["ABC", FontSize -> p]], {p, {12, 24, 36}}]

Specify the absolute font size using predefined symbolic values:

Wolfram Language code: Table[Text[Style["ABC", FontSize -> p]], {p, {Tiny, Small, Medium, Large}}]

Scope  (4)

Specify the font size without using an option:

Wolfram Language code: Table[Text[Style["ABC", s]], {s, {12, 24, 36}}]

Use relative font sizes:

Wolfram Language code: Text[Style[{"ABC", Style["ABC", Smaller], Style["ABC", Larger]}, 24]]

Specify a font size that is 0.3 times the width of the graphic:

Wolfram Language code: Graphics[Text[Style["ABC", FontSize -> Scaled[.3]]]]

Making the graphic smaller makes the font get correspondingly smaller:

Wolfram Language code: Show[%, ImageSize -> {50, 50}]

Font size can be specified in style-related options:

Wolfram Language code: Plot[Sin[x], {x, 0, 10}, LabelStyle -> (FontSize -> 14)]
Wolfram Language code: ContourPlot[Sin[x y], {x, 0, 1}, {y, 0, 1}, FrameStyle -> Tiny]
Wolfram Research (1996), FontSize, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/FontSize.html (updated 2007).

Text

Wolfram Research (1996), FontSize, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/FontSize.html (updated 2007).

CMS

Wolfram Language. 1996. "FontSize." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. Last Modified 2007. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/FontSize.html.

APA

Wolfram Language. (1996). FontSize. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/FontSize.html

BibTeX

@misc{reference.wolfram_2026_fontsize, author="Wolfram Research", title="{FontSize}", year="2007", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/FontSize.html}", note=[Accessed: 13-June-2026]}

BibLaTeX

@online{reference.wolfram_2026_fontsize, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={FontSize}, year={2007}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/FontSize.html}, note=[Accessed: 13-June-2026]}