By default, LaTeX makes monospaced text rather large relative to the default serif ("roman") text. This is especially pronounced when choosing custom fonts, e.g.
\usepackage{fouriernc} \usepackage{DejavuSansMono} Is there some way to rescale just the monospaced fonts across the document, regardless of the context?
Example document
\documentclass[12pt]{scrartcl} \usepackage[scale=0.8, a4paper]{geometry} \usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{xcolor} \usepackage{upquote} % fix rendering of quotes in verbatim context \usepackage{tcolorbox} \tcbuselibrary{listings} \newtcblisting{codeblock}{ arc=2pt, listing only, boxrule=0pt, bottom=-8pt, top=-5pt, colback=black!5, colframe=black!5, listing options={ breaklines=true, columns=fullflexible, % needed for copy-pasting basicstyle=\ttfamily\color{black!70}, }, } \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} % \usepackage{lmodern} \usepackage{fouriernc} \usepackage{DejaVuSansMono} \begin{document} \section{Base situation} \begin{minipage}{\linewidth} Choosing the combination of \verb|fouriernc| the relative font size of inline \verb|\verb| test and inline \texttt{\string\texttt} text is too large. The issue is more pronounced when enabling \verb|DejavuSansMono|, but to a lesser degree present without. Likewise the contents of \begin{verbatim} verbatim environment \end{verbatim} and the self-defined \begin{codeblock} codeblock environment \end{codeblock} are too large.\footnote{It also should work in \texttt{\string\footnote} context.} \end{minipage} \section{Half-fixes} The issue can be partly solved on a case-by-case basis, but this is undesirable. For instance, setting \verb|\verbatim@font|. \makeatletter \renewcommand\verbatim@font{{\scriptsize}\ttfamily} \makeatother For demonstration, here \verb|\verbatim@font| includes \verb|\scriptsize|, which does however not affect \texttt{\string\texttt}. This also affects the default \begin{verbatim} verbatim environment \end{verbatim} but not the self-defined \begin{codeblock} codeblock environment \end{codeblock} \begin{minipage}{\linewidth} \footnote{In a footnote, the sizing would be anyway wrong, because {\csname verbatim@font\endcsname\string\scriptsize} is too large as font size correction for monospaced text here.} \end{minipage} As a consequence adjustments of the font size have to made in many different places. \end{document} 
\usepackage[scaled=0.5]{DejaVuSansMono}(adapt the value naturally ...)\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}or use\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}or just use\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}if you need compatibility with old documents using theutf8xconfiguration.