Personal style preference: font size front matter

[Function]

Hello everyone

I've read that it's not uncommon to put the font of front matter (that is, before the main contents) of a document, thesis ... in a smaller size than the main corpus.

Now my front matter would be the following stuff, title and cover pages excluded, and in order:

1. Copyright information
2. Signature page
3. Quote
4. Acknowledgements
5. ToC
6. List of symbols and abbreviations
7. List of tables
8. List of figures
9. Preface
10. Abstract
11. Dutch abstract

After which Chapter 1 commences.

Now, without any doubt, I'll put 1-3, 5-8 in a smaller font (just 1 pt smaller, makes quite a difference). My question is, what would you do with 4 and 9-11? Should I also put these in a smaller font, since they can also be considered to be front matter, or should I put them in the regular font size, since they are mostly continuous text?

There are no university guidelines about this, and this is rather a personal preference question, but I'd like to hear some opinions.

Thanks!

Function

Edited September 25, 2017 by Function