Hi,
all LaTeX-Fonts are designed to be well suited for printed output. However, they differ and when you search on LaTeX-Fonts on the internet, you will even find people complaining about the way too bad LaTeX-Fonts. Those people claim to be typographers and I do not know if they are right or wrong, but the examples given seem more or less logic to me.
So, I recommend using a font that you like. Write a page or two of text and print it several times with a different font each time. I tried that once and did not find big differences between them – again, I am not a typographer or any kind of designer, just interested in it. This way I began using the Times font in LaTeX, which I liked best (I do not like the standard font at all).
And then there is XeTeX, which enables you to use any font of your OS in LaTeX. There are tipps on the wiki how to use it in LyX. XeTeX is well suited for writing in many different languages at once and other fun stuff all around typographic details. I like to use Hoefler Text via XeTeX in LyX, as it is a beautiful font and very well equipped – what many fonts out there are not. Even LaTeX-fonts do not seem to be always full-featured. However, many packages, especially around mathematical stuff, do not (yet) work with XeTeX, so you should check your essential needs before thinking about XeTeX. To me as a humanities student it is absolutely the best and nicest way of using LaTeX.
Regards, Max ___________________________________ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html for details.
