Fonts & Character Sets ⇒ Old style fonts

[melekzedek]

Hello.

I really like the way some old math papers look like, like in this example

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I like specially the integral sign.

Does anyone knows about a font that can render something similar to this example?

thanks in advance

[localghost]

Perhaps you will find something useful in the "Free Math Font Survey" document.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[melekzedek]

Thank you for the swift answer. Maybe tomorrow I will take a look at your suggestion, if I find something similar, I will share with the group.

[localghost]

In case that this math paper is present to you, you could take a look at the fonts by going to the properties of the document inside your viewer.

[melekzedek]

Thanks localghost by your suggestion, unfortunately neither one answer directly to my particular question, although they are good insights about the general math font question.

The Free Math Font Survey didn't have a similar font, and I can't see the fonts in the paper, since this is a scanned copy of a 1970's paper.

Maybe there is something similar with payed fonts.

[localghost]

I think you're just too picky. It's not worth buying a commercial font just because of a single math sign. For me there are some good examples (Figures 11, 20, 22-24) in the Math Font Survey document which from my point of view come pretty close to your sample.

[melekzedek]

yeah, maybe .
By the way, I like the Utopia text with Fourier-GUTenberg math (\usepackage{fourier}). This was my choice for the PhD thesis, since my university didn't had any specific font.

[Keta]

What about Garamond (\usepackage[garamond]{mathdesign})? It doesn't have that integral sign, but it is one of the most old-looking fonts IMO.

Cheers,

Keta

[melekzedek]

Thank you keta for your suggestion.
What it's strange is that in my system (full installation of TeXLive in Ubuyntu 9.04), the option

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\usepackage[urw-garamond]{mathdesign}

gives a sans-serif type font, which is odd, since the documentation shows it as being a serif font.
On the other hand, the option

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\usepackage[adobe-utopia]{mathdesign}

gives a nice look.

[frabjous]

Garamond definitely shouldn't be sans-serif, but it doesn't come with TeXlive, even the Full version, by default.

Open a console and type in:

sudo getnonfreefonts -a

That should install it, and some others.

The font in the scan above looks a lot like Garamond to me, or maybe Sabon or Plantin.