Text Formatting ⇒ Chapter title formatting

[nzbone]

Hi everyone,

Firstly, I am new to Latex so please go easy

I want to get a title similar to the screenshot attached. I can't seem to get the following to work
1) Very large font size for the number and a smaller one for the actual chapter title
2) Colour of both the chapter title and number
3) Helvetica font

I have tried this but it only gets me partway there

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\usepackage{titlesec}
\titlespacing{\chapter}{0pt}{*25}{*5}
\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
    {\filleft\bfseries\Huge}
    {\Huge\thechapter}{10pt}{\sc}
    []

Thanks

[nzbone]

Figured it out.

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\usepackage{fix-cm}

\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
    {\filleft\bfseries\fontsize{32}{32}\selectfont\color{blue}}
    {\fontsize{55}{55}\selectfont\thechapter}{-10pt}{\sc}
    []
   

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Thank you for posting the solution!

Btw. though fix-cm solves problems with larger font sizes, I would switch to the similar but newer and fine Latin Modern instead:

\usepackage{lmodern}

Stefan

[nzbone]

Hi,

Thanks.

I am using XeLaTeX with the following

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\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Calibri}

Specifically calibri because that is how all my charts and graphs are formatted.


So

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\usepackage{lmodern}

messes up the font.

Are there any specific benefits?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Do you really need fix-cm then? It's for the standard Computer Modern font.
Just because of this I recommended Latin Modern. The font is your choice, just if I need a very good but very similar replacement for the standard font, I would choose Latin Modern. It's planned as successor, and it supports T1 font encoding.

Stefan

[nzbone]

Ahhh ok I see. Thanks a lot. Removed fix-cm.