How to change the size of font?

[yao5461]

Hi~
I want to make the font size smaller, How?
Thanks.

[johannesbottcher]

\documentclass[11pt, a4paper]{awesome-cv} ... change 11 to 10.

[yao5461]

Thanks!
And how to reduce space between sections?
I'm a newbie. Thanks!

[johannesbottcher]

\renewcommand{\acvSectionTopSkip}{0mm}

[arekolek]

@johannesbottcher Does it really change the font size? In my case the font stays the same regardless of whether I choose 10, 11 or 12pt. Only line spacing is affected.

Font sizes seem to be fixed because of how the styles are defined in awesome-cv.cls, for example:

\newcommand*{\paragraphstyle}{\fontsize{9pt}{1em}\bodyfontlight\upshape\color{text}}

Changing the font option to \documentclass can't affect cvparagraph environment font size because it is fixed to \fontsize{9pt}{1em}.

It can't change any other font size, for the same reason.

[johannesbottcher]

@arekolek For simple text, yes.

[arekolek]

@johannesbottcher Yet the examples never use any simple text.

[johannesbottcher]

@arekolek If i change 11pt to 10pt in the example CV, i can see more stuff on the page. cvitems uses normal font without any changers.

More stuff on the page is not a real reason to claim the font size has changed. I didn't do a real check. Might just a well be the different baselineskip when no special environment is in charge. If it really is like that, the 11pt needs to be removed from the example because it is misleading. As i said, i never checked. CV-templates aren't any good.

[arekolek]

@johannesbottcher Actually, \cvitems is wrapped inside \descriptionstyle in the examples.

I'm guessing @posquit0 put the 11pt in there to get the line spacing, since it doesn't affect the font size at all.

[JanHendrikDolling]

checkout my fork at https://github.com/JanHendrikDolling/Awesome-CV
You could change the font size and line stretch with the following commands.
FYI: I'd only used the cv template.

% font size for different elements
\sizesection{16pt}
\sizesubsection{12pt}
\sizeentrytitle{10pt}
\sizeentryposition{8pt}
\sizeentrydate{8pt}
\sizeentrylocation{9pt}
\sizedescription{9pt}

% line stretch
\stretchdescription{1.2}

[haowenz]

@arekolek
Hi,
I tried to change the font size here but the font size didn't change.
\newcommand*{\paragraphstyle}{\fontsize{9pt}{1em}\bodyfontlight\upshape\color{text}}

Do you know how to change the front size?

Thanks.

[johannesbottcher]

This will give you an error because \paragraphstyle is already defined. The cvparagraph environment isn't used in the example templates.

There are about 30 styles that can be changed individually. There is no simple switch to make fonts bigger.

That could be done, but it would require many (many) lines of code.

[fguardini]

Coming back to this as I was looking for the same issue, all the settings to be changed are in .cls, as I guess @yao5461 was looking for this, under the "Configuration for Styles - Configure styles for each element" section. Most likely he needed the bullet points configuration, which can be found on the line

\newcommand*{\descriptionstyle}[1]{{\fontsize{9pt}{1em}\bodyfontlight\upshape\color{text} #1}}

where 9pt is the size, knowing that there are 34 different text elements that should be modified accordingly :P

Out of curiosity, wouldn't it be possible to have a dynamic reference for font size? For example in the document the smallest font size is 8pt, if that is defined as x and every other font is defined as x, x+1, x+2 etc just changing the small font size would update everything else...

[johannesbottcher]

Out of curiosity, wouldn't it be possible to have a dynamic reference for font size? For example in the document the smallest font size is 8pt, if that is defined as x and every other font is defined as x, x+1, x+2 etc just changing the small font size would update everything else...

That is the default LaTeX approach, This template handles stuff a bit differently. As i said, many lines of code would need to be changed to allow different font sizes by default. Standard book class provides three different font sizes to choose from, each one needs an extra file of about 200 lines of code.

For a CV, a bit less would be needed. On the other hand, a templates purpose is to set the style and layout. Though a user is able to change some stuff, not everything is possible.

[codemongkey]

so ,how to change the size of font

[rhecht95]

checkout my fork at https://github.com/JanHendrikDolling/Awesome-CV You could change the font size and line stretch with the following commands. FYI: I'd only used the cv template.

% font size for different elements \sizesection{16pt} \sizesubsection{12pt} \sizeentrytitle{10pt} \sizeentryposition{8pt} \sizeentrydate{8pt} \sizeentrylocation{9pt} \sizedescription{9pt}

% line stretch \stretchdescription{1.2}

@JanHendrikDolling where does the \stretchdescription command get placed to take effect? I'm having trouble making this work but I also dont know too much about LaTex syntax. My best guess was somewhere on line 210:

\newcommand*{\descriptionstyle}[1]{{\fontsize{9pt}{1em}\bodyfontlight\upshape\color{text} #1}}

[JanHendrikDolling]

I haven't used the template for a long time. Try the following line.

[rhecht95]

Thanks! I actually managed it a different way with \linesep in the code block at line 684:

% Define an environment for cvitems(for cventry)
\newenvironment{cvitems}{%
\vspace{-4.0mm}
\begin{justify}
\begin{itemize}[leftmargin=2ex, nosep, noitemsep]
\setlength{\parskip}{0pt}
\setlength{\itemsep}{0.6em}
\renewcommand{\labelitemi}{\bullet}
}{%
\end{itemize}
\end{justify}
\vspace{-4.0mm}
}