Small text is a historic type size used primarily in French and Italian printing traditions, measuring roughly 7.5 points on the Didot scale. It falls between the sizes traditionally known as minion and brevier in the Anglo-American system. Printers utilized this compact size for bibles, pocket dictionaries, and classified newspaper advertisements where maximizing word density was essential.
Heard on the job
We'll need to use small text for the index if we want to keep this volume under three hundred pages.