Changing the font size of document title

Question

A publication I am submitting to has the rather annoying requirement of needing the document title to be size 16pt (and the regular text size being 12pt, which I know how to do). I have absolutely no idea how to change the font size of the title (beyond adding \Large, \LARGE etc. but none of these correspond to 16pt).

How would I go about setting the font size of the title to a specific size?

Answer 1

For small sections of text, write a command:

\newcommand*{\TitleFont}{%
      \usefont{\encodingdefault}{\rmdefault}{b}{n}%
      \fontsize{16}{20}%
      \selectfont}

which you can use as

\title{\TitleFont ....}