Page Layout ⇒ beamer | Change Font Size of Block Title

[wcw]

The font size of the block title is identical to the font size of the context on each slide. The problem is that this makes my beamer quite cramp. I am wondering the method to decrease the size of the font on the title of the block. Can someone provide me with the information for changing the size of the font of the block title?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

that's easy to to, by just one line, such as

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\setbeamerfont{block title}{size=\scriptsize}

With the Madrid theme this gives:

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Stefan

[wcw]

Hi,

that's easy to to, by just one line, such as

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\setbeamerfont{block title}{size=\scriptsize}

With the Madrid theme this gives:

block.png

Stefan

Thanks for your reply. Can you tell me how you know the method to change how beamer looks? I want to know the method to do some modification to the macro.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

You can read about it in the beamer manual (texdoc beamer or on CTAN), here for example in 12.3 Block Environments, Beamer-Color/-Font block title. \setbeamerfont is also explained somewhere, of course. I know that the manual is extensive, but beamer is feature rich. Sometimes it's quicker to look into a beamer theme source code file to quickly find theme related commands and settings.

Stefan

[wcw]

You can read about it in the beamer manual (texdoc beamer or on CTAN), here for example in 12.3 Block Environments, Beamer-Color/-Font block title. \setbeamerfont is also explained somewhere, of course. I know that the manual is extensive, but beamer is feature rich. Sometimes it's quicker to look into a beamer theme source code file to quickly find theme related commands and settings.

Stefan

Thanks.