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I was using Overleaf to do drafts of various figures and was unable to set the font size. For example, this

\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\node[font=\huge,left] {squash this bug};
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

gives the error

l.5 \node[font=\huge] {
                       squash this bug};
The control sequence at the end of the top line
of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have
misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct
spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.

It turns out that changing the document class from minimal to article solves the problem. Where/how should I report this? Thanks.

Nat Kuhn
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    There is nothing really to report, the minimal class isn't suited for this since, as you have discovered, it does not define font sizes (and a lot of other stuff). Don't use it. The really "minimal" class for typesetting tests is article. – campa Sep 08 '23 at 14:21
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    As @campa says, this isn't a bug. minimal is supposed to (not) work like this. It isn't intended for minimal working examples (or minimal non-working examples, for that matter). Use article or standalone for MWEs/MNWEs. – cfr Sep 08 '23 at 14:24
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    See Why should the minimal class be avoided? – campa Sep 08 '23 at 14:25
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    Try changing font size without tikz to see that tikz is irrelevant here. – cfr Sep 08 '23 at 14:26

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