Fonts larger than \Huge?

Question

How can I make text that is larger than the size of the output of {\Huge ...}?

I would like to be able to make text arbitrarily large (even if that is done by some suboptimal scaling routine).

Answer 1

You can use the Memoir document class. It provides two things that are relevant to your question:

More Base Font Sizes

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The standard LaTeX document classes only allow you to choose 10pt, 11pt or 12point as the "base" font size for your document. Memoir provides many more choices: 9pt, 10pt, 11pt, 12pt, 14pt, 17pt, 20pt, 25pt, 30pt, 36pt, 48pt and 60pt. Since all font size declarations are affected by the base font size, using a bigger base font size will make \Huge render in a bigger font.

The \HUGE Font Size

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For when it absolutely has to be bigger than \Huge, crank it to 11 with \HUGE.

Answer 2

A quick search on CTAN turned up anyfontsize. To quote the description:

The package allows the to user select any font size (via e.g. \fontsize{...}{...}\selectfont ), even those sizes that are not listed in the .fd file. If such a size is requested, LaTeX will search for and select the nearest listed size; anyfontsize will then scale the font to the size actually requested.

Similar functionality is available for the CM family (type1cm), for the EC family (type1ec), or for either computer modern encoding (fix-cm); the present package generalises the facility.

Answer 3

If you use Type 1 fonts (e.g., package mathptmx or mathpazo), you can simply use the \fontsize command with large point sizes:

{\fontsize{50}{60}\selectfont Foo!}

Answer 4

The \resizebox command (from graphicx package) is convenient if you want to produce, e.g., a title that fills the entire page width:

\resizebox{\linewidth}{!}{\itshape Foo!}

Answer 5

In XeTeX (using fontspec) you can use system fonts many of which have a "Scale" attribute you can set to a large number. For instance, in one document I have this line for a largeish Japanese font:

\newfontinstance\bigkanafont[Color=000000,Scale=2.5]{Hiragino Mincho Pro W3}

Answer 6

In your class add:

%% Define a HUGE 
\newcommand\HUGE{\@setfontsize\Huge{38}{47}} 

Answer 7

According to http://www.mostlymaths.net/2009/03/big-fonts-in-latex.html, you can use the fix-cm package to get arbitrary-size fonts. In fact, searching CTAN for fix-cm seems to give a few different packages that provide this functionality. I've never used any of them myself so I couldn't tell you which ones might work or not, but it shouldn't be hard to try them.