Pssst:

s/I think the font has it’s own/I think the font has its own/;

@ The Punisher:
This post was really helpful to me, it was motivated only by a desire to help – and you think it’s clever to make a mindlessly offensive remark.

[…] and Fonts I found this page when trying to figure out how to get LaTeX to use Helvetica. Proved quite useful and […]

Question Luke, how do you go about changing math fonts? The two commands you gave in the comments is more than my google king fu is turning up…

Hi!

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.

[quote comment=”9003″]Personally, my Serif font favourite is Garamond and Sans-Serif is Verdana, which I find rounder and more pleasant than both Helvetica and Arial.[/quote]

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.

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

[quote post=”2431″]You need to use Computer Modern if you need math symbols–none of the other fonts you mentioned come with math symbols.[/quote]

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}

[quote post=”2431″]It’s hard to compare them that way.[/quote]

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

[quote post=”2431″]BTW, you have your Helvetica and Arial transposed. Between the last two, the first is Heltvetica and the second is Arial.[/quote]

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

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