Before the release of Netscape Navigator 1.1, typographic options on the Web were limited to the one font and size that any given browser allowed. But the <font size> tag - allowing publishers to vary font sizes, not just from page to page, but word to word - gave us one more tool to improve (or, for that matter, impair) the readability of our pages.

The default font size = 3, but you can alter it by inserting a specific numeral, such as <font size=5>, or a relative value, which changes the size in relation to the default: <font size=+2> or <font size=-1>, for example.

So if you write in your HTML doc:

<font size=6>I am a big person.</font>

You'll get:

I am a big person.

Unlike the headline tags, which force headlines of different sizes onto different lines, the <font size> tags let you combine different sized words on the same line, so you can

stride across the page like a COLOSSUS!

You can choose from seven convenient font sizes:

This is <font size=1>.

This is <font size=2>.

This is <font size=3>.

This is <font size=4>.

This is <font size=5>.

This is <font size=6>.

This is <font size=7>.