I found in the question
How to set a small default font size with beamer?
that you can reduce the default font size in Beamer by writing
\documentclass[8pt]{beamer}
However, the answer to this question doesn't explain
how I can make the default font size bigger rather than smaller.
My questions are:
- What is the default font size?
- What other default font sizes are supported besides
8pt
?
Note:
I was able to find the answer to this question on my own,
but I am posting the question here
because I believe that the answer would be useful to others.
Best Answer
Edit: I am grateful to samcarter who pointed out that the information that I provided below is also available in the beamer user guide "18.2.1 Choosing a Font Size for Normal Text".
I was able to find that in the source code of the beamer.cls file, there are relevant lines:
These lines indicate that the default font size is
11pt
, and that the optionsXpt
are available for X in {8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 17, 20}. Furthermoresmaller
(same as10pt
) andbigger
(same as12pt
) are available. All options besides10pt
,11pt
and12pt
require theextsize
package to be installed.MWE: 20pt
MWE: 8pt