From: "Wolfgang Schuster" <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Fonts and other tips for thesis and other academic works
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:13:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <115224fb0804160513y2bac13bbu28e431af6f173c15@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200804161404.01423.matija.suklje@rutka.net>
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Matija Šuklje <matija.suklje@rutka.net> wrote:
> Dne sreda 16. aprila 2008 je Henning Hraban Ramm napisal(a):
> > AFAIK there are also math fonts for Palatino (px), Times (tx?),
> > Helvetica (hx? and commercial) and the Euler fonts that work with
> > different serif fonts.
> > And soon (I hope) we'll get math support for the TeXGyre fonts as well.
>
> As a law student I don't actually need any major math support, but I'll take
> notice of these as well.
You should also take a look at Myriad and Minion (Shipped with Adobe Reader)
and Microsofts new fonts for Vista (Part of the PowerPoint Viewer 2007) or take
a look at the following link (the dutch designer behind the 6th
provides a few nice
and free fonts).
http://www.typografie.info/typoforum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=4779
> > I'd suggest a readable serif as body font, I like e.g. TeXGyre Schola
> > (Century Schoolbook) - it's a bit conservative and ill suited for
> > titling sizes - and perhaps a sans-serif for titlings, e.g. LM Sans or
> > TeXGyre Heros (Helvetica).
>
> Thanks for the suggestion. Is there a page where I can preview these fonts?
Latin Modern has a manual with Examples from the Fonts, not sure if
the other fonts include also one.
Wolfgang
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-16 12:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-15 22:19 Matija Šuklje
2008-04-16 6:00 ` Suno Ano
2008-04-16 7:27 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2008-04-16 12:03 ` Matija Šuklje
2008-04-16 12:13 ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2008-04-16 12:16 ` Olivier Guéry
2008-04-21 16:48 ` Matija Šuklje
2008-04-16 12:02 ` Matija Šuklje
2008-04-16 16:53 ` Matija Šuklje
2008-04-20 11:44 ` Suno Ano
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