[Tex/LaTex] How to make TikzPoster work with font sizes larger than 25pt

Question

I am attempting to make the base font size that the entire document is based on to 36pt. TikzPoster only says they support sizes up to 25pt in the arguments for the document class. How would I change this base font size from 25pt to 36pt so the rest of the poster sizes scale automatically?

Something like this:

\documentclass[36pt, portrait]{tikzposter}

Answer 1

We can use KOMA-script to help us.

As explained in How can i change the fontsize with KOMA-script? we produce a new file.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{scrfontsizes}
\generatefontfile{theguy}{36pt}
\begin{document}
\end{document}

Running the above example will give us a file theguy36pt.clo. That file can be input into our document, but since it contains internal macros, we need to protect it using \makeatletter and \makeatother.

\documentclass{tikzposter}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\makeatletter
\input{theguy36pt.clo}
\makeatother
\usepackage{blindtext}
\begin{document}
\block{Walzing Wombat}{\blindtext}
\end{document}

There is quite a lot going on in the file, stuff that is not needed for a poster. You should of course take a look at this file and adjust it a bit. There is no real use for floatseps within a poster, but the gap between text and an equation still matters.