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My favourite fonts to use with LaTeX (2022)

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

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Post by GavinMcG »

behnamoh wrote: post #16

I might pay the karma tax on this one but I've come to really appreciate "Times New Roman" (or TeX Gyre Termes + STIXTwoMath). Like the OP, I used to care a lot about fonts. Heck, at some point my Windows boot time got slowed down because of the sheer number of fonts it had to load! I used to think the default Latex font gives off a "serious" and "scientific" vibe. And I thought to myself: why would anyone ever use T…

How much is FakeBold doing there, though? Easy to say it’s “just” TNR, but if the features of TNR that make it characterless have been supplanted with something soulful, then haven’t you just found a soulful typeface that you like?

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

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Post by Synaesthesia »

guizzmo wrote: post #29

Genuine question : why are all those fonts serif ones? I personnaly find them much harder to read than sans serif ones (including when printed on paper, not just on screens).

I thought the whole point of serif fonts is that they are easier to read. But the author addresses your question:

> This survey focuses on serif fonts as these are the usual choice for longer documents such as articles or books (although sans-serifs have become more popular for longer text in recent years). However, in keeping with the reasoning above, I have also selected accompanying sans-serif fonts for each of the seven roman choices below (all of which have maths support of some form or another).

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

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Post by sneak »

behnamoh wrote: post #16

I might pay the karma tax on this one but I've come to really appreciate "Times New Roman" (or TeX Gyre Termes + STIXTwoMath). Like the OP, I used to care a lot about fonts. Heck, at some point my Windows boot time got slowed down because of the sheer number of fonts it had to load! I used to think the default Latex font gives off a "serious" and "scientific" vibe. And I thought to myself: why would anyone ever use T…

the default latex font is called Computer Modern, and I specifically use a webfont version of it on my personal site/blog because of the “serious” and “scientific” vibe you describe.

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

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Post by lukeyoo »

it's merely about LaTex font: I use mostly the html-side font for text to spread the weight with markdown renderer. It is also made lighter by using KaTex(which comes with some compromise due to the lack of extension). I found this more coherent along with other types of articles. I'm very fine with non-serif. But this preference varies by person.

Examples

[1] https://lukeyoo.fyi/test/data/render/latex-statements-1.md

[2] https://lukeyoo.fyi/recap/2025/5/statistical-inference-1

[3] https://lukeyoo.fyi/test/data/render/latex-integrals-1.md

[4] https://lukeyoo.fyi/test/data/render/latex-integrals-in-comp...

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

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Post by nanna »

fodkodrasz wrote: post #27
mhd wrote: post #4

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…

Your link is the most authentic LaTeX experience for beginners: fonts with no preview/screenshot on their homepage... LaTeX users already know it, why make screenshots :D The blog post does this some justice though, the author does live in the current century, and does have nice examples. /me is former LaTeX user from uni, not overly fond of it, for usability issues not unrelated to its legacy.

CTAN is the central repository for all TeX packages, it's the natural link to give. If you want to see examples it's as easy as clicking on the relevant package name (eg XCharter) and then click 'Package documentation' which will request the relevant pdf. TeX outputs into PDF so it's the natural medium for demonstrating and documenting things. It's got nothing to do with not 'living in the current century'.

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

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Post by jhanschoo »

I'm personally a fan of using EB Garamond together with Garamond-Math. Ironically I'm actually excited about Granjon's types in it. The Greek is very nice, though unconventional for someone not used to Greek texts. (The Greek letters will look unconventional when used as Greek letters for mathematical typesetting.)

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

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Post by JustFinishedBSG »

Kind of expensive but there isn't actually a lot of choice for fonts with matching math fonts so for my PhD thesis I used Minion 3 + MinionMath.

For mono fonts there are a lot of nice choices but I used PragmataPro for no other reasons that I own it and it provided a nice readable contrast.

Otherwise for the free options, Palatino+mathpazo or StixTwoText + StixTwoMath are quite good options. Honestly anything but ComputerCM is a good option; it's imho not a very good font nowadays; it's way too thin. It was designed with the assumption that it will be printed on old, fairly bad, printers with significant ink overspill.

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

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Post by jpfr »

flenserboy wrote: post #10

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.

Microtype support for LuaTeX doesn't look so bad. At least on paper...

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/654089/microtypograp...

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