How to make footer font smaller than body?

Questions
1

I had the whole body font set to 8pt in my template

set text(
  hyphenate: auto,
  spacing: 175%,
  size: 8pt,
)

and then each chapter set to 11pt

#set text(size: 11pt)

this is the only way my previous alternating header font size adjusted so when I switched to using a basic footer page number

#set page(numbering: "— 1 —")

I kept it and it worked fine.

I just added some pages at the beginning of the chapters and it forces the footer to be 11pt no matter what I do (moved to the end, and then added them to their own sections, nada)

#pagebreak()
#set page(background: image("turntable-01.png"))
#pagebreak()
#set page(background: image("turntable-02.png"))
\
=== chapter one

also, if I don’t add that linebreak above the chapter one heading, none of my block spacing actually applies…

any thoughts would be helpful!

2

Instead of setting numbering, would it work for you to define the footer explicitly? (Given that numbering only renders anything if the footer is blank, I assume that is okay for you)

#set page(
  footer: context {
      set text(size: 8pt)
      set align(center)
      [\- #counter(page).get().first() \-]
  }
)
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3

oh wow, this worked perfectly, thank you!
I definitely didn’t realize that about numbering so thanks for letting me know!

4

You should use counter(page).display() when just displaying. It will track page.numbering value.