Display line number on each buffer line

[fatiparty]

Dec 2, 2021, 09:17 by philipk@posteo.net:

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>> Dec 2, 2021, 08:31 by larsi@gnus.org:
>>
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>>>> Is there a way to display the line number on each buffer line?
>>>>
>>>
>>> `M-x display-line-numbers-mode'
>>>
>> That's what I was looking for.  Is there a technique for changing the 
>> foreground colour of the line number as well?
>>
>
> You can customise the faces line-number (for all lines) and
> line-number-current-line (for the current line).  Use `M-x
> customize-face [face name]' to do this interactively.
>

That is good, but I want to do that from my init file if possible.  Is there a 
way to reduce the line number size as well?