I have to make slides under some given restrictions for a presentation. I am thinking of using beamer, even though I have not used it before. One of the given restrictions is that a title has to be in Arial, 44 pt size, and bold. After reading the manual I came up with the following experimental code.
\documentclass{beamer}
\setbeamerfont*{titlefont}{size*={44pt}{24pt}, family={\fontfamily{phv}}, series=\bfseries}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
\usebeamerfont*{titlefont}
Titles 44 pt and bold
\end{frame}
\end{document}
The output is in Arial and bold, however, the size seems much larger than 44pt. What seems to be the problem? Is there anther way to do this?
Best Answer
Presentation are zoomed. A requirement of an absolute font size doesn't make sense if you don't know to which frame size it relates. In beamer the frame size is quite small (128mm by 96mm), so that normal font sizes like 14pt look already quite large. See section 8.3. Frame and Margin Sizes of the documentation.