Requires start and end tags. This allows you to change the font size and/or color for the enclosed text. The attributes are: SIZE and COLOR. Font sizes are given in terms of a scalar range defined by the user agent with no direct mapping to point sizes etc. The FONT element may be phased out in future revisions to HTML.
Some user agents also support a FACE attribute which accepts a comma separated list of font names in order of preference. This is used to search for an installed font with the corresponding name. FACE is not part of HTML 3.2.
The following shows the effects of setting font to absolute sizes:
size=1 size=2 size=3 size=4 size=5 size=6 size=7
The following shows the effect of relative font sizes using a base font size of 3:
The same thing with a base font size of 6: