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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/47729
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

At one point in my story, the characters are addressed by a god. In the ensuing dialogue, this god has a more archaic way of speaking, but even so, I'm wondering if it might be a good idea to visually distinguish the god's speech from the other characters' speech. I think part of the reason is that since this is essentially a disembodied voice talking, I can't use the usual visual cues (gestures, facial expressions, etc) to highlight who is speaking.

I don't want to capitalize everything as I find long stretches of capitalized text hard to read, and I'm already using italics for thoughts and emphasis. Since the story is going to be published online, I can't rely on displaying the text in an actually different font, either.

However, I've played around with increasing the size a bit and I think it looks okay. But are there any reasons not to do this?

EDIT: Since it was raised in a comment and I didn't think about it before:

While the god's speech is usually on a separate line, occasionally it's interspersed with speech tags and descriptions. **Would it be problematic to have different sizes in the same paragraph?** (FWIW, in my current draft I'm using a difference of 2 size points.)

Original score: 22