Timeline for Suggest a "nice" font family for my basic LaTeX template (text and math)
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| Jun 12, 2024 at 14:14 | comment | added | campa | There is now a version of libertinus also for pdftex, so there could be other combinations: libertinus with libertinust1math, and libertinus with newtxmatx with libertinus option. I still have to test them though. | |
| S Mar 10, 2024 at 12:07 | history | suggested | double-beep | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Remove "enter image description" placeholder from all images; fix images' indentaiton and place them in a blockquote so they look nicer; replace -- with – |
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| Sep 27, 2020 at 8:17 | history | edited | Mico | CC BY-SA 4.0 | inserted '<!-- language: lang-none -->' directive |
| Jun 10, 2020 at 12:32 | history | edited | CommunityBot | Commonmark migration | |
| Nov 29, 2019 at 12:03 | history | edited | campa | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Typo in name |
| Nov 28, 2019 at 22:34 | history | edited | Mico | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added an entry with the `libertinust1math` math font package, per @campa's suggestion |
| Feb 11, 2018 at 16:23 | comment | added | Andrea Lazzarotto | @Mico, great, thank you! This abundance of Times fonts always gives me a headache. I think once I read somewhere that one of those should be the "preferred" one, but I don't know which one. | |
| Feb 11, 2018 at 15:43 | comment | added | Mico | @AndreaLazzarotto -- Thanks for contacting me in this matter. I actually agree with your assessment! Specifically, I went through the Times Roman font examples; indeed, the screenshots for the txfonts and stix package weren't correct. (About a year ago, this site had a major meltdown of sorts, and all kinds of links were compromised and not rebuilt correctly. All I can surmise at the moment is that this problem affected my posting as well.) I've posted new screenshots for those two font packages. Hopefully, the other images are OK -- at least until the next meltdown... | |
| Feb 11, 2018 at 15:35 | history | edited | Mico | CC BY-SA 3.0 | uploaded a better screenshot for the 'stix' and 'txfonts' packages |
| Feb 11, 2018 at 15:18 | comment | added | Andrea Lazzarotto | Your answer shows a couple of Times variant where you say that the summation symbol does not look similar to mtpro2. However, the pictures show a symbol nearly identical to that font. Is there an error in the pictures? | |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:36 | history | edited | CommunityBot | replaced http://tex.stackexchange.com/ with https://tex.stackexchange.com/ | |
| Feb 11, 2017 at 20:38 | history | edited | Mico | CC BY-SA 3.0 | updated all screenshots, as several of the font packages have undergone subtle changes in the almost five years since I first posted this answer |
| Feb 11, 2017 at 20:26 | comment | added | Mico | @Pygmalion - Thanks for this suggestion; I've updated the answer accordingly. | |
| Feb 11, 2017 at 20:17 | history | edited | Mico | CC BY-SA 3.0 | updated another screenshot |
| Feb 11, 2017 at 20:07 | history | edited | Mico | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added newpxtext/newpxmath font package information |
| Feb 11, 2017 at 19:50 | comment | added | Pygmalion | Michael Sharpe improved another Young Ryu's font, pxfont with newpx. This one is based on Palatino. It is maybe worth adding that to your valuable list. | |
| Feb 9, 2017 at 12:53 | comment | added | Mico | @skan - Thanks for this. I'm afraid I know very little about the actual mechanics of font encodings. I'm thus not in a position to say anything useful on this topic. Sorry. | |
| Feb 9, 2017 at 11:52 | comment | added | skan | What do you thing about this comment? "The opentype fonts in newpx appear to be opentype wrappers for the type 1 fonts, still in legacy TeX 8bit encoding, not Unicode fonts with an OpenType MATH table, so they are not OpenType math fonts in the sense that is required here. (Unless I missed a new font with a Math table?)" github.com/wspr/unicode-math/issues/373#issuecomment-278609091 | |
| Nov 25, 2016 at 13:12 | comment | added | skan | Maybe because I don't know anything about fonts. Anyway if you read my previous messages you'll see I'm interested in LuaTeX compatible fonts from the beginning | |
| Nov 25, 2016 at 13:08 | comment | added | Mico | @skan - I'm puzzled, then, why you keep referring to font packages that aren't suitable for use under LuaLaTeX. | |
| Nov 25, 2016 at 12:33 | comment | added | skan | @Mico I would like to use LuaTeX | |
| Nov 25, 2016 at 12:15 | comment | added | Mico | @skan - It depends on whether you use pdfLaTeX or LuaLaTeX. If it's the former, newpxtext and newpxmath should do just fine -- and almost certainly much better than either pxfonts or mathpazo. I have no idea how well (or even if!) any of these packages work under LuaLaTeX. Unless your document has very little math to begin with -- in which case it probably doesn't matter anyway -- I would like to discourage you from mixing Palatino text and non-Palatino math material. The differences will just be too jarring, even to people who don't know much about fonts to begin with. | |
| Nov 25, 2016 at 12:07 | comment | added | skan | Would you suggest "TeX Gyre Pagella" or NewPX fonts?. I need a Palatino clone but only for the text part. For math I think my university won't check it. I could try to use different fonts for text and for math, but I don't know if this may cause problems. | |
| Nov 25, 2016 at 11:55 | comment | added | Mico | @skan - Unfortunately, the class of Opentype math fonts is not yet as stable and robust as Computer/Latin Modern is under pdfLaTeX. If you're limited to Palatino clones, you may want to look into TeX Gyre Pagella for text and TeX Gyre Pagella Math for math. I assume you're familiar with this website. XITS and Stix are Times Roman clones, so they probably don't cut it for you. Asana Math is sort of a Garalde and may thus also be of interest to you. | |
| Nov 25, 2016 at 11:28 | comment | added | skan | @Mico, What opentype font do you suggest for math? . You didn't say anything about Xits or Pagella. | |
| Nov 25, 2016 at 11:21 | comment | added | skan | @Mico, I'm looking for a nice math font, preferably opentype, and a text working well with kerning and advanced mycrotype options, preferably similar to Palatino (it's an imposition of my university). | |
| Nov 24, 2016 at 22:49 | comment | added | Mico | @skan - Your question is unclear. LuaTeX does not belong to fontspec. Are you using LuaLaTeX? Are you interested in the Palatino font family for text and math? | |
| Nov 24, 2016 at 21:36 | comment | added | skan | I've read kpfonts are incompatbile with fontspec's LuaTeX, What can I do or what alternatives are there? | |
| Nov 14, 2016 at 11:27 | comment | added | Mico | @skan - May I ask that you post a new query to raise the issue you're looking to solve? That way, your question will be seen by many more people. Thanks. | |
| Nov 14, 2016 at 11:25 | comment | added | skan | Is there any option in kpfonts to get an integral or sum like the mathtime ones? (smaller and tilted, italic-like) | |
| Nov 14, 2016 at 6:53 | comment | added | Mico | @skan - I'm a bit puzzled by your claim that mathtime (a Times Roman clone) looks "very similar" to mathpazo (a Palatino clone); speaking for myself, I can certainly detect lots of differences. Regarding mathpazo vs kpfonts: they're both Palatino clones, and their text-mode glyphs are therefore (unsurprisingly) rather similar. The kpfonts package offers quite a few additional options in terms of upright and slanted Greek lowercase and uppercase letters. You may (or may not...) prefer the large \sum and \int symbols provided by kpfonts. | |
| Nov 13, 2016 at 19:59 | comment | added | skan | mathtime seems to be very similar to mathpazo. Can you detect any difference? And, do you prefer mathpazo or kpfonts? (for writing equations and having good kerning) | |
| Sep 26, 2015 at 13:38 | comment | added | Mico | @sgmoye - Many thanks for this information. I look forward to version 2.0 of the STIX font family. | |
| Sep 26, 2015 at 10:33 | comment | added | sgmoye | @MICO -- STIX 2.0, currently under development, has moved quite a bit beyond being a mere Times clone. Tiro Typeworks [tiro.com] has subtly modified the shapes to make the font far more useful both for printing and e-viewing. (I am an AMS employee. The AMS is a part of STIPUB [stixfonts.org/stipubs.html] which sponsors the STIX fonts. A number of problems with STIX 1.0 have also been fixed. | |
| Jul 29, 2015 at 3:17 | comment | added | Nasser | I am switching all my files to use kpfonts. Very nice font! | |
| Oct 18, 2014 at 11:43 | comment | added | Mico | @adam - Note that I started my answer with "Here's a non-exhaustive list of..." [emphasis added]. :-) I'm in no position to judge objectively which fonts are "most famous" or are used most frequently, but based on casual empiricism I would have guessed that Times Roman is the single most frequently used (and abused!) font. What math font would you suggest should be combined with charter: Math Design, or something else? | |
| Oct 17, 2014 at 21:15 | comment | added | Adam | What do you think about the 'charter' font? Why is it not listed? I always thought it is most famous afther cm. | |
| Aug 18, 2014 at 10:53 | comment | added | user11232 | I happened (accidentally) to visit your profile today and saw 99 votes and I didn't upvote that nice answer so far!. Very bad on my part. I am priviledged to cast the 100th vote for a nice fellow friend. Keep up the good work Mico. | |
| Aug 18, 2014 at 10:49 | comment | added | Mico | @HarishKumar - Thanks so much! I very much appreciate your best wishes. | |
| Aug 18, 2014 at 8:26 | comment | added | user11232 | Congratulations on the occasion of a Great Answer gold badge :-). | |
| Mar 13, 2014 at 22:26 | history | wiki removed | Joseph Wright♦ | ||
| Mar 13, 2014 at 22:23 | history | edited | Mico | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added a sample to show the look of the stix package, per @speravir's request |
| Feb 7, 2013 at 18:37 | history | edited | Mico | CC BY-SA 3.0 | addendum to include the look of the MWE when typeset with Palatino text fonts and Euler math fonts |
| Feb 7, 2013 at 0:25 | history | edited | Mico | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added a few improvements here and there |
| Aug 9, 2012 at 23:48 | history | edited | Paul Gaborit | CC BY-SA 3.0 | add mtro2 (lite) image at 100dpi with anti-aliasing |
| Aug 4, 2012 at 15:21 | history | edited | Paul Gaborit | CC BY-SA 3.0 | add samples at 100dpi with anti-aliasing |
| Aug 4, 2012 at 12:45 | history | edited | Paul Gaborit | CC BY-SA 3.0 | add a sample at 100dpi with antialiasing |
| Jul 21, 2012 at 3:18 | history | bounty awarded | Audrey | ||
| Jul 21, 2012 at 2:24 | history | edited | Mico | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added text to point out a minute difference between CM and LM fonts |
| Jul 20, 2012 at 14:43 | history | edited | Mico | CC BY-SA 3.0 | redid all the images at lower resolution |
| Jul 20, 2012 at 2:28 | history | edited | Mico | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added screen shots per @Audrey's suggestion |
| Jun 15, 2012 at 21:09 | history | edited | Mico | CC BY-SA 3.0 | addendum to note that I just earned my 100th "badge" on TeX.SE! |
| Jun 15, 2012 at 14:41 | vote | accept | Christophe | ||
| Jun 13, 2012 at 14:25 | history | edited | Mico | CC BY-SA 3.0 | noticed and fixed a few typos |
| Jun 13, 2012 at 14:15 | history | edited | Mico | CC BY-SA 3.0 | additional links, further explanations |
| Jun 13, 2012 at 14:10 | history | edited | Mico | CC BY-SA 3.0 | additional explanations |
| Jun 13, 2012 at 14:04 | history | edited | Mico | CC BY-SA 3.0 | additional explanations |
| Jun 13, 2012 at 13:58 | history | answered | Mico | CC BY-SA 3.0 |