\documentclass[crop,varwidth=10cm]{standalone} %\usepackage{geometry} \usepackage[dutch]{babel} \usepackage{parskip} \usepackage{amsmath,amssymb} % \geometry{ % paperwidth=9cm, % paperheight=7.5cm, % margin=0.0cm, % paperheight=3cm, % paperheight=2cm, % %paperwidth=4cm, % paperheight=2cm % } \begin{document} \centering $ \begin{pmatrix} \cos(\theta) & -\sin(\theta)\\ \sin(\theta) & \cos(\theta) \end{pmatrix}\quad \begin{bmatrix} \cos(\theta) & -\sin(\theta)\\ \sin(\theta) & \cos(\theta) \end{bmatrix}\quad \begin{Bmatrix} \cos(\theta) & -\sin(\theta)\\ \sin(\theta) & \cos(\theta) \end{Bmatrix} $ \vspace{5pt} $ \begin{vmatrix} \cos(\theta) & -\sin(\theta)\\ \sin(\theta) & \cos(\theta) \end{vmatrix}\quad \begin{Vmatrix} \cos(\theta) & -\sin(\theta)\\ \sin(\theta) & \cos(\theta) \end{Vmatrix}\quad \begin{matrix} \cos(\theta) & -\sin(\theta)\\ \sin(\theta) & \cos(\theta) \end{matrix} $ % \begin{align*} % \end{align*} \end{document}