My favourite fonts to use with LaTeX (2022)

I would recommend most fonts that Michael Sharpe worked on. He did some nice refinements on already-decent fonts, often to bring copies closer to the original[1]. Heck, I’d recommend them outside of LaTeX, too.

Favorites out of those are XCharter, ScholaX, Etbb and Erewhon.

Also have a look at Algol Revived, which is a remake of a font made for French Algol 60 books by famed type designer, Adrian Frutiger.

[1]: https://ctan.org/author/sharpe

Re: My favourite fonts to use with LaTeX (2022)

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Post by fidotron » Tue, May 20, 2025, 9:44 PM UTC

Great to see Bembo being properly appreciated.

It's kind of ironic that a system that ships with Computer Modern doesn't end up creating more Bodoni/Didone fans.

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Post by jovas » Tue, May 20, 2025, 10:01 PM UTC

I like some variant of STIX (I never know the exact difference) and Gillius Sans

Re: My favourite fonts to use with LaTeX (2022)

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Post by ahartmetz » Tue, May 20, 2025, 10:04 PM UTC

Xophmeister wrote: post #2

Palatino with Microtype is my go to for all my LaTeX documents. It looks so good.

My standard font package is "mathpazo", which is Palatino with maths support. I obviously like Palatino - and if it isn't available, Garamond is similar.

If ever have to do much LaTeX again though, I'll check out the alternatives because the mess of partially compatible modules and the troubles with figure placement are still bad in LaTeX.

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Post by drob518 » Tue, May 20, 2025, 10:42 PM UTC

Xophmeister wrote: post #2

Palatino with Microtype is my go to for all my LaTeX documents. It looks so good.

Palatino has been my favorite font since it first appeared on the Macintosh.

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Post by mynameisash » Tue, May 20, 2025, 10:52 PM UTC

I've heard so much praise for The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, but why, I'll never know. I bought it after hearing someone rave about it, and I'll be damned if I didn't hate every page of the book. It felt like a rebuff to The Design of Everyday Things.

The former is currently sitting in my car, and I'll be trying to offload it to someone who actually wants it.

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Post by flenserboy » Tue, May 20, 2025, 10:57 PM UTC

Quite fond of kpfonts. As much as I use XeTeX because of OpenType, I find myself going back to PDFLaTeX so I can get the benefits of Microtype. I tried some of my docs through LuaTeX, but the results, while fine, were still inferior to the two options above.