General ⇒ squaring the circle - or how to get a small square!

[mhesse]

the square you get from the command \square is much bigger than the circle I get from the command \circ. I would like to use squares and circles in a common legend and would hence like a square that is compatible in size with \circ (i.e. smaller). I can't figure out how.

I have seen that there is a command \sq but I always get an error when I am compiling.
Thanks
Marc

[localghost]

Just use a switch to change the font size.

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$\square$ {\scriptsize $\square$} $\circ$

[gmedina]

Another option is to scale the square using the \scalebox command of the graphicx package. In this case, you should add in the preamble

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\usepackage{graphicx}

and then, in the body of your document, you can use something like

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\scalebox{0.6}{$\square$}

The first argument is the scale factor to be used.