This site might provide a good place to ask further advice: http://typedia.com/forum/viewcategory/1/
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Henning Hraban Ramm <hra...@fiee.net>wrote: > Am 2010-03-01 um 04:54 schrieb Tom: > > > Some time back I recall seeing a message in which someone discussed using >> fonts available from foundries and recommended certain ones. >> Unfortunately, >> I can't seem to find that message. I will probably need one serif font for >> the text of the book, a plain sans serif font to use for entries in a >> table, >> a fancier sans serif font for chapter titles and, possibly a different >> not-too-plain sans serif font for page headers. Also, I can't figure out >> how >> to tell ConTeXt which font to use for page headers. >> > > I guess you know http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Fonts ? > > Without knowing the subject and/or intended audience of your book I can't > suggest suitable fonts. > > Generally I find Palatino (TeX Gyre Pagella) with Frutiger (in a pinch: MS > Calibri) a very good combination, even if rather conservative. > > SIL Gentium is also a very nice body font, if you like a "soft, human" > touch. Linotype Finnegan is a matching sans-serif; perhaps try Libertine > Biolinum, if you want a free one. > > For more technically looking sans's I like LM Sans and URW Grotesk > (especially in small sizes). > > > Greetlings from Lake Constance! > Hraban > --- > http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ > http://wiki.contextgarden.net > https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer) > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to > the Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ >
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