Using specific font families
We will explore many more TeX fonts that are special in their own way. We will use our \pangram
macro from the previous section with the corresponding family command for testing.
Serif fonts
A small line or stroke attached to a larger stroke in a letter or symbol is called a serif. A font regularly using such serifs is called a serif font, or a serif typeface.
The default serif font is called Computer Modern Roman. Latin Modern provides a very similar font, and you already know the Kp-Fonts serif font. Other packages specialize in serif fonts, and we will now look at some of them.
Times Roman
The newtx
package defines a Times text font and a matching math font.
It's split into two parts, so they can be used independently, such as when you would like to have a different math font. That's why we load it in this way:
\usepackage{newtxtext} \usepackage{newtxmath}
With \pangram{\rmfamily}
and our math formula, we get the following...