# Font sizes

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/font-sizes/157117>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [February 24, 2003, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/font-sizes/157117 "2003-02-24T07:00:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2003, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/font-sizes/157117/1 "2003-02-24T07:00:13Z")

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This should be really big.

This should be of normal size.

It didn’t work when I posted in a thread earlier, so I thought I’d do a little test.

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**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2003, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/font-sizes/157117/2 "2003-02-24T07:08:30Z")

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I did the same thing in this thread as I did in the thread where it didn’t work (in Cafe Society about “Army of Darkness”). What’s going on?

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**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2003, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/font-sizes/157117/3 "2003-02-24T07:09:46Z")

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Oh, shit, I just realized … I made the size=2, and it hadn’t occurred to me that size 2 is normal size. D’oh!

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**Author:** ![Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2003, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/font-sizes/157117/4 "2003-02-24T07:32:33Z")

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Test  
Test

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**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2003, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/font-sizes/157117/5 "2003-02-24T16:34:47Z")

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Go!

Go!

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**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2003, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/font-sizes/157117/6 "2003-02-24T17:14:22Z")

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