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I would like to use the utopia font found in the fourier package, but when I add

\usepackage{fourier}

a 5 page document shrinks quite a lot, even though I'm using the same font size! The problem is that I'm required to use 10pt font for this document, and the fourier package with 10pt really looks smaller than that. Why does this happen? Aren't the fonts supposed to be the same size?

I checked the font size with the code found here and it's 10pt as expected in both cases.

MWE:

\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage[top=2cm, bottom=2cm, left=2cm, right=2cm]{geometry} % modify margins
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{fourier}


\begin{document}

\lipsum[3-49]

\end{document}
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  • If you are not comfortable going with 11pt in spite of the guidance, you could always use the setspace package to increase the interline skip distance slightly. – Steven B. Segletes Mar 31 '15 at 16:47
  • Going for 11 takes my document off the page limit with the current text so it's not an option. – aaragon Mar 31 '15 at 16:48
  • \usepackage{setspace} \spacing{1.05} – Steven B. Segletes Mar 31 '15 at 16:50
  • 11pt or 12pt give the height of the font. But just as handwriting, different fonts have different widths. Look at http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/seriffonts.html and compare, all have the same font size (height) but the test sentences have different lengths. – Johannes_B Mar 31 '15 at 16:50
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    As I understood it, pt measure used to indicate the full height of the metal body the characters were cast on. Today pt is a derivative of the em size, which I believe is set arbitrarily when the font is designed. Hence different fonts with the same point measure have different sizes. (I might be totally wrong about this) – Sverre Mar 31 '15 at 17:08
  • Have a look at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bleiletter.svg wher $d$ equals the font size. – Johannes_B Mar 31 '15 at 19:55
  • If I remember correctly fourier scales the font a bit down to get better look together with the default linespacing. So it should be quite ok to use 11pt. – Ulrike Fischer Mar 31 '15 at 21:30
  • You can use the widespace option, which helps a bit. @UlrikeFischer I can't see where it does this. Are you thinking of fouriernc? – cfr Apr 01 '15 at 01:30
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    @cfr: It scales it by a factor of 0.92 in the virtual fonts. See e.g. http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/142725/using-10pt-fonts-with-the-fourier-package-actually-gives-me-9-17pt – Ulrike Fischer Apr 01 '15 at 07:21
  • Can someone point out a nice font that I can use that doesn't look smaller than 10pt but which also shrinks so that I can gain some space? – aaragon Apr 01 '15 at 07:23
  • Thanks. Indeed: (FONTAT R 0.92). It would be more flexible to do this in the .fd files, I think, with a customisable scaling factor? – cfr Apr 01 '15 at 17:45

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