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Notes for Readers
Most browsers have a key combination that allows the font sizes used to display a page to be increased or decreased incrementally. Typically, these are "Control +" and "Control -" respectively.
Notes for Editors
For simplicity and stylistic consistency, it is usually better to avoid specifying font sizes explicitly. When you specify a heading level, for example, the font size will be adjusted automatically in a manner that fosters consistency.
When font sizes must be changed, it is usually better to specify a percentage change. For example, when mathematical expressions created using the <math> tag are interspersed with ordinary text, increasing the default font size by about 30% (font-size:130%) may improve readability. Further details about how to do this are presented in the section "font-size" below.
In most other cases, if the font size of a section of text must be modified explicitly, then it is preferable to use one of these HTML tags:
- <big> (equivalent to CSS: {font-size:larger})
- <small> (equivalent to CSS: {font-size:smaller})
"font-size"
You can get fine-grained control of font size using "font-size". For example:
{{font-size|125%|One hundred and twenty-five percent}}
produces:
One hundred and twenty-five percent
The font-size template uses an HTML <span> tag, so that the above is equivalent to:
<span style="font-size:125%">One hundred and twenty-five percent</span>
To change the font size of an entire page or segment including division breaks, use the <div> tag instead of <span>.
Template:fs
This template modifies the font size by using the HTML size parameter. Specifically:
{{fs|SIZE|TEXT}} is a shortcut for <font size={{{1}}}>{{{2}}}</font>.
For example:
{{fs|1|one}} produces one
{{fs|2|two}} produces two
{{fs|3|three}} produces three
{{fs|4|four}} produces four
