I'm using Palatino (\usepackage[sc]{mathpazo}
) as the main font for my thesis, and it occurred to me that italic (and possibly also bold) body texts are somewhat smaller than the '\normalsize\normalfont
' texts.
Here is an image to illustrate the phenomenon:
Is this default Palatino behavior? Is there a way to particularly change the size of the italic and bold parts of the body text?
Best Answer
There's probably something in your preamble messing things, because, by default, the italics of Palatino match the height of the roman:
Here's the code I used: