This site might provide a good place to ask further advice:

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On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Henning Hraban Ramm <hraban@fiee.net>wrote:

> Am 2010-03-01 um 04:54 schrieb Tom:
>
>
>  Some time back I recall seeing a message in which someone discussed using
>> fonts available from foundries and recommended certain ones.
>> Unfortunately,
>> I can't seem to find that message. I will probably need one serif font for
>> the text of the book, a plain sans serif font to use for entries in a
>> table,
>> a fancier sans serif font for chapter titles and, possibly a different
>> not-too-plain sans serif font for page headers. Also, I can't figure out
>> how
>> to tell ConTeXt which font to use for page headers.
>>
>
> I guess you know http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Fonts ?
>
> Without knowing the subject and/or intended audience of your book I can't
> suggest suitable fonts.
>
> Generally I find Palatino (TeX Gyre Pagella) with Frutiger (in a pinch: MS
> Calibri) a very good combination, even if rather conservative.
>
> SIL Gentium is also a very nice body font, if you like a "soft, human"
> touch. Linotype Finnegan is a matching sans-serif; perhaps try Libertine
> Biolinum, if you want a free one.
>
> For more technically looking sans's I like LM Sans and URW Grotesk
> (especially in small sizes).
>
>
> Greetlings from Lake Constance!
> Hraban
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