diff --git a/inst/rmarkdown/templates/posterdown_pdf/resources/template.tex b/inst/rmarkdown/templates/posterdown_pdf/resources/template.tex
index c09ee88..a84ec75 100644
--- a/inst/rmarkdown/templates/posterdown_pdf/resources/template.tex
+++ b/inst/rmarkdown/templates/posterdown_pdf/resources/template.tex
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 %% %%		Brent Thorne
 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 
-\documentclass[article,$font_size$,extrafontsizes]{memoir}
+\documentclass[article,30pt,extrafontsizes]{memoir}
 
 %utf-8 seems to be important
 \RequirePackage[utf8]{inputenc}
@@ -184,9 +184,9 @@
   \centering
   \color{titletextcol}
 \vspace{0.5in}
-  \Huge{$title$}  \\[0.3in]
-  \color{authortextcol} \Large{$author$} \\[0.2in]
-  \color{affiliationtextcol} \large{$affiliation$}
+  \$title_font_size${$title$}  \\[0.3in]
+  \color{authortextcol} \$author_size${$author$} \\[0.2in]
+  \color{affiliationtextcol} \$affiliation_size${$affiliation$}
   \vspace{0.2in}
 
 % end title section -------------------
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@
 
 % Brgin body of poster
 \begin{adjmulticols*}{$column_numbers$}{10mm}{10mm}
-\normalsize{
+\$body_font_size${
 \color{bodytextcol}
 $body$
 }
diff --git a/inst/rmarkdown/templates/posterdown_pdf/skeleton/skeleton.Rmd b/inst/rmarkdown/templates/posterdown_pdf/skeleton/skeleton.Rmd
index ef92be3..12ed56c 100644
--- a/inst/rmarkdown/templates/posterdown_pdf/skeleton/skeleton.Rmd
+++ b/inst/rmarkdown/templates/posterdown_pdf/skeleton/skeleton.Rmd
@@ -4,9 +4,16 @@
 author: "Author One^1^ Author Two^2^"
 affiliation: "^1^Department of Poster Layouts, University of Markdown; ^2^Deparment of Another Institution, Institution University"
 
-#----FONT STYLE----#
-font_size: "30pt" #sets '\normalsize' (sizes of the title and sections headings will adjust based on it)
+#----FONT STYLE & SIZE----#
 font_family: "palatino" # choose from typical latex fonts (example: "palatino")
+font_size: "30pt" #sets '\normalsize' (sizes of the title and sections headings will adjust based on it, not recommended as memoir has limited options)
+
+# Sizes are standard Latex options (tiny, scriptsize, footnotesize, small, normalsize, large, Large, LARGE, huge and Huge)
+title_font_size: "Huge" # size of the poster title
+author_size: "Large"
+bibliography_font_size: "tiny" # size of the bibliography in latex options ( etc.)
+affiliation_size: "large"
+body_font_size: "normalsize" # size of body text
 
 #----COLOURS----#
 
@@ -35,7 +42,7 @@
 
 #----OTHER----#
 bibliography: MyLibrary # name of the .bib file used for referencing
-bibliography_font_size: "tiny" # size of the bibliography in latex options (tiny, scriptsize, footnotesize, small, normalsize, etc.)
+
 output: posterdown::posterdown_pdf
 ---