[OS X TeX] Which OS X fonts with matching math fonts?

Michael Ummels michael at ummels.de
Wed Feb 23 00:36:11 CET 2011


On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 19:08, Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard <mpg at elzevir.fr> wrote:
> Yep, sure, that's what I'm doing usually, and it works with XeTeX too. What I
> actually wanted to ask is: in addition to the well-known free fonts usable on
> any platform with any TeX engine, is there any font provided with OS X which is
> particularly worth trying and looks fine with one of the existing free math fonts?

I saw "Hoefler Text" used in many sample for XeTeX. It is a font
with many ligatures and other OpenType features such as swash capitals.
I think it looks similar to Garamond, so it could potentially be
combined with mathdesign.

> Right, but for now I'd rather not recommend unicode-math to a beginner, it looks
> a bit too experimental to me.

I haven't tried it myself yet, but it surely is promising.

Michael



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