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There are some surprising available math fonts, here is a page with sample output showing which available math fonts match which available text fonts: http://c

• hyperbovine 17y ago
  Should also point out that for not that much money ($79) you can buy a great looking alternative font called Lucida Bright which comes with a complete set of matching math glyphs. It is much easier on the eyes (both on screen and in print) than the standard CM. Well worth it if you write lot of Tex.
• Silhouette 17y ago
  I appreciate what you're saying, but IMHO almost none of the samples on that page looks sufficiently professional that I would use it to set a textbook. Computer Modern has at least stood the test of time, and gives a clean, uniform appearance to text and mathematical type. If I were setting a serious work, I would like to use a high quality serif font, something like Emigre's Mrs Eaves or Adobe's Arno Pro, but alas, these fonts have a rather limited range of mathematical glyphs, which means you either get the "two similar but different fonts" problem (which nearly always looks bad) or you have to pick a font that isn't as nice for the body text just because it has matching math symbols available.
  • asolove 17y ago
    Should have mentioned to jump to the bottom of the page. Many of the examples are ugly, but Minion and Utopia are, of course, pro Adobe fonts used in a large number of professionally-typeset books.
• JoachimSchipper 17y ago
  Unfortunately, this doesn't mean that everything that you'd like to work actually works. E.g. \mathbb, for things like the set of real numbers (\mathbb{R}). Or am I missing something?