Choosing a document font
The default font has the name Computer Modern and is of excellent quality. It’s a whole font family containing bold, italic, sans-serif, typewriter, and more font versions. All the fonts are well-composed to fit together.
If you want to change a font, use a complete bundle or carefully select font families based on shape and size. That’s because, besides giving an excellent appearance to the document overall, it is essential that all font families are compliant with each other when they are used together.
This recipe will look at some font sets and recommended combinations.
Getting ready
The files for the fonts you would like to use should already be installed on your TeX system. If necessary, install them. Use the package manager of your LaTeX distribution, such as the MiKTeX package manager if you use MiKTeX on Windows, or the TeX Live manager tool called tlmgr.
If you have TeX Live installed, it offers the possibility to install...
