Top 20 Latex Fonts
Following the awesome Top 10 LaTeX Fonts by Jaap Joris Vens, this page includes pages using 20 LaTeX fonts that I evaluated for Version 3.0 of the 1d6 roleplaying system.
Each paragraph1 showcases a different font family and how I activated it. All fonts2 are free and open source and available via texlive. The sources are basesetup.tex and template.org. The pages are converted to PNGs with Ghostscript (see the howto at the end of this page).
If you find mistakes on this page, like broken font rendering, please tell me, so I can fix it.
Sans Serif
Kepler with additional “oldstyle” ligatures
The ligatures like the lines above st are there because I activated old style.
https://www.draketo.de/anderes/ews-template-font-kepler.pdf
\usepackage[oldstyle,oldstylemath]{kpfonts}
- Kp-Fonts von Christophe Caignaert (2018) des Johannes Kepler project (unter GPL v2 or later mit Font Exception).
Helvetica
https://www.draketo.de/anderes/ews-template-font-helvet.pdf
\usepackage{helvet} % PSNFSS Font, in every TeX distribution \renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault}
Avant
https://www.draketo.de/anderes/ews-template-font-avant.pdf
\usepackage{avant} % PSNFSS Font, in every TeX distribution \renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault}
Berasans
https://www.draketo.de/anderes/ews-template-font-berasans.pdf
\usepackage[scaled=0.88]{berasans}% package has a handy scaling option \renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault}
Libris
https://www.draketo.de/anderes/ews-template-font-libris.pdf
\usepackage{libris} % a nice, almost handwritten calligraphic look \renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault}
Biolinum
https://www.draketo.de/anderes/ews-template-font-biolinum.pdf
\usepackage{biolinum} % included with the {Libertine} font package \renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault}
Iwona
Paratype
https://www.draketo.de/anderes/ews-template-font-paratype.pdf
\usepackage{paratype}\renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault}
Heros
https://www.draketo.de/anderes/ews-template-font-tgheros.pdf
\usepackage{tgheros}\renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault}
Serif
Latin Modern
https://www.draketo.de/anderes/ews-template-font-latin-modern.pdf
\usepackage{lmodern} % monospace font \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \renewcommand{\ttdefault}{lmtt} % MONO Latin Modern Font % T1 encoding of cmtt font style \renewcommand{\rmdefault}{lmr} % SERIF Latin Modern Font % T1 encoding of cmr font style \renewcommand{\sfdefault}{lmss} % SANS Latin Modern Font % T1 encoding of cmss font style
Baskerville / Baskervald with added “oldstyle” ligatures
https://www.draketo.de/anderes/ews-template-font-baskervald.pdf
- Baskervald ADF von Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF) (unter GPL v2 or later mit Font Exception) und Heros von Jackowski and Janusz M. Nowacki.
% baskervald with swash: more ligatures, % and osf: old style (tosf) in text, tlf in math, \usepackage[swash,osf,sups,scaled=1.02]{Baskervaldx} % math italic letters from Baskervaldx \usepackage[baskervaldx,cmintegrals,bigdelims,vvarbb]{newtxmath} \usepackage[cal=boondoxo]{mathalfa} % mathcal from STIX, unslanted a bit
Charter
https://www.draketo.de/anderes/ews-template-font-charter.pdf
\usepackage{charter} % PSNFSS Font, in every TeX distribution
Bitstream Charter
https://www.draketo.de/anderes/ews-template-font-xcharter.pdf
\usepackage{XCharter} % Bitstream's Charter % extended with many style varieties
TX Helvetica
https://www.draketo.de/anderes/ews-template-font-txfonts.pdf
\usepackage{txfonts} % TX Serif and Sans (Helvetica)
Zapf Chancery
https://www.draketo.de/anderes/ews-template-font-chancery.pdf
\usepackage{chancery} % PSNFSS Font, in every TeX distribution
Beraserif
https://www.draketo.de/anderes/ews-template-font-beraserif.pdf
\usepackage[scaled=0.88]{beraserif} % package has a handy scaling option
Century Schoolbook
https://www.draketo.de/anderes/ews-template-font-fouriernc.pdf
\usepackage{fouriernc} % Century Schoolbook % compact and lighter than New Century Schoolbook
New Century Schoolbook
https://www.draketo.de/anderes/ews-template-font-newcent.pdf
\usepackage{newcent} % PSNFSS Font, in every TeX distribution
Tex Gyre Schola
https://www.draketo.de/anderes/ews-template-font-tgschola.pdf
\usepackage{tgschola} % TeX Gyre Schola, % New Century Schoolbook with many font style varieties
Times
https://www.draketo.de/anderes/ews-template-font-times.pdf
\usepackage{mathptmx,txfonts} % Times % PSNFSS Font, in every TeX distribution \renewcommand{\rmdefault}{txr} \renewcommand{\familydefault}{\rmdefault}
Tex Gyre Termes (Times)
https://www.draketo.de/anderes/ews-template-font-tgtermes.pdf
\usepackage{tgtermes} % TeX Gyre Termes, % Timen with many font style varieties
Bookman
https://www.draketo.de/anderes/ews-template-font-bookman.pdf
\usepackage{bookman} % PSNFSS Font, in every TeX distribution
Tex Gyre Bonum (Bookman)
https://www.draketo.de/anderes/ews-template-font-tgbonum.pdf
\usepackage{tgbonum} % TeX Gyre Bonum, % Bookman with many font style varieties
Palatino
https://www.draketo.de/anderes/ews-template-font-palatino.pdf
\usepackage{newpxtext,newpxmath} % Palatino
Tex Gyre Pagella (Palatino)
https://www.draketo.de/anderes/ews-template-font-tgpagella.pdf
\usepackage{tgpagella} % TeX Gyre Pagella, % a Palatino with many font style varieties
Utopia
https://www.draketo.de/anderes/ews-template-font-utopia.pdf
\usepackage{fourier} % Utopia, package {utopia} is obsolete
Garamond
https://www.draketo.de/anderes/ews-template-font-garamond.pdf
% A Garamond Font (Bembo) with many font styles \usepackage{fbb}
HowTo
hg clone https://hg.sr.ht/~arnebab/ews cd ews/Hauptdokument/ews30 FONTNAME=fontname # (edit basesetup.tex to uncomment the FONTNAME to try) make template.pdf for page in 3 4; do gs -sDocumentUUID="ews" -sInstanceUUID="ews" -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH \ -sDEVICE=png16m -r600 -dDownScaleFactor=1 \ -dFirstPage=$page -dLastPage=$page \ -sOutputFile="ews-template-font-${FONTNAME}-${page}.png" "template.pdf" done
sources are basesetup.tex and template.org.
The images are from the awesome Trudy Wenzel. Thank you!
You can find her and her cyberfairies on synticfaye.com.
Footnotes:
except for this one, which is rendered by your browser, and for the code example, because I did not want to edit the template file, only the setup.
If you want to investigate more font previews, without the pre-filtering for legibility done here, the LaTeX Font Catalogue can be a good start. To get to this list, I first checked different font preview lists online, but I missed a pre-filtering for sufficient legibility. There are many fonts online, but most of them are not nice to read in longer-form text (at least not to the standard set by fonts sponsored by Adobe or Microsoft). If you find fonts you like here, please doublecheck your impression with your own page layout. That might change the fonts legibility.