Designing a Business Card in LaTeX

Re:Designing a Business Card in LaTeX by jacobolus on Saturday February 11, 2017 @10:43PM (#13626558)

You managed to name a bunch of typefaces which are even less suitable for tasks where someone might use Computer Modern (Times is comparable). I’m not sure what that proves....

Instead of Calibri, the Microsoft-provided typeface to use for mathematics is Cambria, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambria_(typeface)#Cambria_Mat...

Personally I like Minion, http://www.typoma.com/en/fonts.html

Or combining some kind of Renaissance-style typeface with AMS Euler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMS_Euler

Or Lucida Math, https://tug.org/store/lucida/opentype.html

If you prefer Times, try MathTime https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MathTime TM Math http://www.micropress-inc.com/fonts/tmmath/tmmain.htm or STIX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STIX_Fonts_project

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Re:Designing a Business Card in LaTeX by yellowapple on Sunday February 12, 2017 @03:53AM (#13627486)

My comment was in response to the assertion that CM is somehow "overused". Compared to the fonts I listed, Computer Modern is pretty obscure.

Maybe I just wasn't clear enough on that part, in which case I sincerely apologize for my poor communication skills.

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Re:Designing a Business Card in LaTeX by haddr on Sunday February 12, 2017 @10:52AM (#13628868)

Ok, I got this, but honestly i thought you meant the opposite

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Re:Designing a Business Card in LaTeX by yellowapple on Sunday February 12, 2017 @02:39PM (#13630166)

No worries; you apparently weren't the only one ;)

I thought I was pretty clear, but I guess not. Makes me really wish HN had a more forgiving window for editing comments, but oh well.

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Re:Designing a Business Card in LaTeX by haddr on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @08:23PM (#13648965)

I think editing comments is disabled once someone posts reply...

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Re:Designing a Business Card in LaTeX by grzm on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @08:31PM (#13648995)

You can edit for up to 2 hours, I believe, regardless of any replies. You can also delete during the same interval, unless someone replies.

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Re:Designing a Business Card in LaTeX by haddr on Saturday February 11, 2017 @11:10PM (#13626663)

Spot on. I laughed on every single font. Each one actually has a long story on abuse.

For replacement fonts I also like Palatino

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