The cell is drawn by MultiCell:
http://www.tcpdf.org/examples/example_005.phps
$pdf->MultiCell(55, 5, '[LEFT] '.$txt, 1, 'L', 1, 0, '', '', true);
and from: http://api.joomla.org/com-tecnick-tcpdf/TCPDF.html
int MultiCell (float $w, float $h, string $txt, [mixed $border = 0], [string $align = 'J'], [int $fill = 0], [int $ln = 1], [int $x = ''], [int $y = ''], [boolean $reseth = true], [int $stretch = 0])
So, as you can see, the first two values ββstatically assign a width (55) and a height (5) in MultiCell
Additionally:
// create new PDF document
$pdf = new TCPDF(PDF_PAGE_ORIENTATION, PDF_UNIT, PDF_PAGE_FORMAT, true, 'UTF-8', false);
You can see that the unit is the default value for the program / class PDF_UNIT
Then the font size is set using
$pdf->SetFont('times', '', 10);
(or just use SetFontSize for size only)