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Useful math fonts in LaTeX
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Math fonts that worth noting

Solutions taken from ftp://tug.ctan.org/pub/tex-archive/info/Free_Math_Font_Survey/survey.html in TUG.

Times-resemble math font

Use either txfonts or mathptmx for Times font support. I personally prefer txfonts since its mathcal symbols look more natural to me.

To use: include \usepackage{txfonts} or \usepackage{mathptmx} in the preamble.

Sans math font

The good

Personally the most comfortable Sans Serif fonts are Palatino or Kerkis. The usage is a bit different:

  • Palatino: use any of the following: pxfonts, mathpazo or mathpple. For me pxfonts looks more professional like in textbooks.
  • Kerkis: need to include \usepackage{kmath,kerkis}

The bad

Optionally kurier or arev can also be used. But I don’t their appearances.

The ugly

The sfmath package with no Greek font support. You need to include additionally the sansmathfonts package to enable Greek fonts, but again the support for some features like mathcal or mathscr are broken.

Artistic-designed fonts

For art-type fonts that may appear on cover, I recommend to use the euler or eulervm. The latter can handle missing fonts as closest resemblance to ComputerModern.

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Just notices how much the TeX community has evolved over years! Now my main workflows use XeTeX / LuaTeX with unicodemath. STIX2-math and Fira-math are quite good and stable to use for serif / sans purposes.

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