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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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  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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