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When setting bold copy in the flow of a lighter-weight body of text, I set the bold type about a half-point smaller for better optical balance. With headlines that contain lighter and bold weights, the disparity in size increases with larger and larger headlines. There's no real math to it, but for example I'll usually set bold text among lighter headlines at 3/4 to a full point smaller. Anything over 64 point gets an even bigger size difference.