Why don’t you use XeTeX? With XeTeX, you can use all Truetype or Opentype fonts in your operating system provided they are Unicode-compatible; you even no longer need to care for encodings.

Personally, my Serif font favourite is Garamond and Sans-Serif is Verdana, which I find rounder and more pleasant than both Helvetica and Arial.

Verdana seems to be bundled in the Winfonts package which may or may not be bundled with your LaTex distribution.

Well, I replaced them with more appropriately sized PNG files. Is that better?

Much.

You need to use Computer Modern if you need math symbols–none of the other fonts you mentioned come with math symbols.

Not necessarily. To use math formulas in Times font simply add following package declaration:

\usepackage{mathptmx}

If you want to use bookman you will have to switch to it’s extension font Kerkis and then do:

\usepackage{kmath,kerkis}

If you want a Sans Serif math symbols, Helvetica might be a bad choice. You should go with Iwona instead:

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[math]{iwona}

It’s hard to compare them that way.

Well, I replaced them with more appropriately sized PNG files. Is that better?

BTW, you have your Helvetica and Arial transposed. Between the last two, the first is Heltvetica and the second is Arial.

Really? I thought I got them right. Either way, it should be fixed now.

It’s hard to compare them that way.
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Though, I didn’t need to compare Helvetica and Arial; there are plenty of good ones one the net and I seen them. I’ve alway felt that the difference between Arial and Helveltica was more subtle than really mattered. There are a lot of people who get all up in arms about how Arial stole Helvetica’s thunder and Microsoft is at fault (and necessarily evil.)

But, really, the differences amount mostly to a few choice thicknesses and slants. The most noticibly difference is in the lowercase ‘t’. You can’t even tell the difference on the computer most of the time because the pixilation.

Yet, *someone* must care because they made a movie about it. Whatever.

…you twatbuttmonkey..