This thesis examines the interactions between the continuum function and large cardinals. It is know, by a result of Easton, that the continuum function on regular cardinals has great freedom in ZFC. However, large cardinals lay additional constraints to possible behaviour of the continuum function. We focus on weakly compact and measurable cardinal to point out the differences in interactions with the continuum function between various types of large cardinals. We also study the case of indescribable cardinals for the comparison, and the results lead us to conclude that it is not easy to pinpoint the reason for these differences. 1