[Tex/LaTex] How to make the title larger in Tikz poster?

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How does one increase the font size of the title of a poster using Tikz Poster?

Best Answer

Looks like this is not as straightforward as it seems at first sight. The title is printed with \maketitle, so it is a little bit more complicated to alter the fontsize of the title, than for the other blocks. To change the settings you can make use of the \settitle command. However, this seems to override all settings of the title block, which probably means you have to define the whole layout of this block yourself (see page 5 of the current manual for an example). As there is no indication in the manual, which font sizes are predefined, and it seems as \Huge is the biggest you can get, you have to use the \fontsize command. However, I don't think this is a good solution, since Latex does provide predefined font sizes not without cause. Probably somebody with a little more experience in typesetting can tell something about this.

Anyway, here is a possible solution:

\documentclass{tikzposter}
%
\begin{document} 
    \title{Bla}
    \settitle{\centering{\bfseries \fontsize{100}{120} \sc \@title \par}}
    \maketitle
\end{document}

Setting \fontsize{60}{72} yields

while for \fontsize{100}{120} you'll get:

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[Tex/LaTex] How to make the title of the BeamerPoster appear on the same page as the actual poster

The following answer is based on your code, but please be aware that it is possibile to follow a completely different approach to solve your problem. You may, for example, get rid of the \title, \author, etc. macros and insert the same information in a normal or custom block enviroment, so to have more control over it. Anyway, the following code tries to follow your MWE:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[orientation=portrait,size=a0]{beamerposter} %2378 x 1682
\mode<presentation>{%
  \usetheme{Frankfurt}%
}

\usepackage{mwe}


\title[S. N. A. E. L.]
{
\parbox{.25\textwidth}{\includegraphics[height=4cm]{dummylogo.png}\hfill}%
\parbox{.5\textwidth}{\hfil \huge Social Network Analysis in English Literature\hfil}%
\parbox{.25\textwidth}{\hfill\includegraphics[height=2cm]{dummylogo.png}}%
}
\author{\Large Sean Allred}
\institute{\Large University College Dublin%
%\\An Col\'aiste Ollscoile, Baile \'Atha Cliath
}
\date{\Large 26 April 2013}



\begin{document}

\begin{frame}[t]{}
\begin{beamercolorbox}{}
\maketitle
\end{beamercolorbox}
\vskip 50mm
  \begin{block}{Title}
    \lipsum
  \end{block}
\end{frame}
\end{document}

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To set the space for the logos in the topleft and right corners three \parbox have been created inside \title. Depending on the length of the title it may be needed to change the parboxes width (in the example I used .25 for the left and right parboxes and .5 for the center one).

If you want the logo only on one side, just remove one of the two includegraphicsand leave the parbox empty.

To show the title in the same page of the content I insterted the \maketitle inside a beamercolorbox.

To change the text size you could use the standard commands (as I did in the example) or scale everything using the option scale=<value> when loading the beamerposter package

Removing external margins from the colorbox

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[orientation=portrait,size=a0]{beamerposter} %2378 x 1682

\mode<presentation>{%
  \usetheme{Frankfurt}%
}

\usepackage{mwe}


\title[S. N. A. E. L.]
{
\parbox{.24\textwidth}{\hspace{5pt}\includegraphics[height=4cm]{dummylogo.png}\hfill}%
\parbox{.5\textwidth}{\hfil \huge Social Network Analysis in English Literature\hfil}%
\parbox{.24\textwidth}{\hfill\includegraphics[height=2cm]{dummylogo.png}}%
}
\author{\Large Sean Allred}
\institute{\Large University College Dublin%

}
\date{\Large 26 April 2013}

\setbeamersize{text margin left=0cm,text margin right=0cm} %removes left and right margins 

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}[t]{}
\vspace{-5pt}             %removes margin between headline and colorbox
\begin{beamercolorbox}{}
\maketitle
\end{beamercolorbox}
\vskip 50mm

\centering\begin{minipage}{82cm}     %introduces a new margin for the content
  \begin{block}{Title}
    \lipsum
  \end{block}
\end{minipage}  
\end{frame}
\end{document}