# itty bitty font **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 21, 2001, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itty-bitty-font/51176 "2001-01-21T23:06:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Carina42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Carina42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carina42)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2001, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itty-bitty-font/51176/1 "2001-01-21T23:06:36Z")
How do I get the small font? I did a search, and don’t see instructions in the vB code page… Thenkyou in advance! ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2001, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itty-bitty-font/51176/2 "2001-01-21T23:52:24Z")
use **sub** and **sup** as the vB tags for subscript and superscript. It’s a roundabout way of getting a small font size. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itty-bitty-font/51176/3 "2001-01-22T00:19:16Z")
As Matt noted. Be sure to turn it off if you use it in mid-post. The proper forms would be to type, without the spaces I’m inserting to keep them as text rather than coding, [sub] text I want in small type [/sub] – or use “sup” instead of “sub” – one subscripts and one superscripts the text. Using them together will make small type evenly lined up with the large type in Netscape but will keep it whichever code you start with in MSIE. ---
**Author:** ![spark\_applied\_to\_powder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@spark\_applied\_to\_powder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spark_applied_to_powder)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itty-bitty-font/51176/4 "2001-01-22T00:28:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Carina42 \* > \*\*Thenkyou \*\* And you’d better see to that nasal congestion. This is flue season. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![spark\_applied\_to\_powder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@spark\_applied\_to\_powder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spark_applied_to_powder)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itty-bitty-font/51176/5 "2001-01-22T00:30:19Z")
:eek: ---
**Author:** ![Carina42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Carina42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carina42)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itty-bitty-font/51176/6 "2001-01-22T04:37:06Z")
Thenk you all again 🙂 (It’s my Brit accent. sorry.) [sub]lets try this…[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Carina42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Carina42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carina42)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itty-bitty-font/51176/7 "2001-01-22T04:39:32Z")
Hey, that works! Toodle pip! [sub]the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Upham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Upham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Upham)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itty-bitty-font/51176/8 "2001-01-22T05:19:57Z")
[sub]i type therefor i am[/sub] and then [sup]i am the very modle of a modern major general[/sup] and just to get the hang of this [sub][sup]my nose[/sub][/sup] Hope ya’ll dont mind if i try this out here ---
**Author:** ![Anachronism](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e56c9b/32.png) [@Anachronism](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anachronism)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itty-bitty-font/51176/9 "2001-01-22T12:58:24Z")
[sub] subscript[/sub] and [sup] superscript [/sup] ---
**Author:** ![Alonist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@Alonist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alonist)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itty-bitty-font/51176/10 "2001-01-22T17:04:48Z")
Well let’s see: using IE 5.5 I will use [sup][sub]subscript and superscript together.[/sub][/sup] Well, Bill seems to have licked that problem. But some people get _rilly_ tiny type- how do they do it without html? ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itty-bitty-font/51176/11 "2001-01-22T22:27:58Z")
click on the “quote” icon (for “reply with quote”) underneath the post you are interested in. A reply window will appear with the post copied in and with the actual vB codes for the formatting. Do it with this post. What’s the difference between these two lines? [sub]The quality of mercy is not strained: it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath.[/sub] [sup] **The quality of mercy is not strained: it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath.** [sup] ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itty-bitty-font/51176/12 "2001-01-22T22:37:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by zgystardst \* > \*\*Do it with this post. What’s the difference between these two lines? > > [sub]The quality of mercy is not strained: it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath.[/sub] > [sup] **The quality of mercy is not strained: it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath.** [sup] \*\* One is subscript, one is bolded subscript. ---
**Author:** ![Welfy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e56c9b/32.png) [@Welfy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Welfy)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2001, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itty-bitty-font/51176/13 "2001-01-26T02:20:31Z")
Hello, [sub]everybody![/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Janx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Janx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Janx)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2001, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itty-bitty-font/51176/14 "2001-01-26T03:11:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by zgystardst \* > \*\*click on the “quote” icon (for “reply with quote”) underneath the post you are interested in. A reply window will appear with the post copied in and with the actual vB codes for the formatting. > > Do it with this post. What’s the difference between these two lines? > > \*\* I just wanted to see if that works or not.:cool ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2001, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itty-bitty-font/51176/15 "2001-01-28T04:55:19Z")
[sub]just trying this out[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2001, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itty-bitty-font/51176/16 "2001-01-28T04:56:20Z")
[sub]hey,[/sub] [sup]way[/sup] [sub]cool/sub]! ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2001, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itty-bitty-font/51176/17 "2001-01-28T04:57:28Z")
[sub]ah,[/sub] [sup]piss[/sup]! ---
**Author:** ![Tabithina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f04885/32.png) [@Tabithina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabithina)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2001, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itty-bitty-font/51176/18 "2001-01-28T12:07:40Z")
[sub]Now[/sub] [sup]to[/sup] [sub]have[/sub] [sup]my[/sup] [sub]coffee,[/sub] [sup]and[/sup] [sub]wake[/sub] [sup]up[/sup] [sub]enough[/sub] [sup]to[/sup] [sub]post![/sub]