type1cm – Arbitrary size font selection in LaTeX

LaTeX, by de­fault, re­stricts the sizes at which you can use its de­fault com­puter mod­ern fonts, to a fixed set of dis­crete sizes (ef­fec­tively, a set spec­i­fied by Knuth). The type­1cm pack­age re­moves this re­stric­tion; this is par­tic­u­larly use­ful when us­ing scal­able ver­sions of the cm fonts (Bakoma, or the ver­sions from BSR/Y&Y, or True Type versions from Kinch, PCTeX, etc.). In fact, since modern distributions will automatically generate any bitmap font you might need, type1cm has wider application than just those using scaleable versions of the fonts.
Note that the LaTeX distribution now contains a package fix-cm, which performs the task of type1cm, as well as doing the same job for T1- and TS1-encoded ec fonts.