Chapter 10: Using Fonts
The text's base font determines the appearance of your text significantly. You may choose a font that's especially clear and readable for a long piece of writing or a fancy calligraphic font for a greeting card. Your job application letter might use a very clear and serious font, whereas a mathematical article requires fonts with a lot of symbols and a text font that fits well with them.
Until now, we have been covering the logical properties of fonts. Although we have always used the LaTeX standard font, we switched, for instance, from roman to sans-serif, or typewriter, and learned how to make text bold, italicized, or slanted in Chapter 2, Formatting Text and Creating Macros. However, we never deviated from the standard set of fonts.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Using comprehensive font bundles
- Using specific font families
- Using arbitrary fonts
While we will inspect the text appearance, we will...
