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Which font would you use for a Book/PhD thesis within science
Hi,
I have alreday asked this question in a "dead" forum (which wasn't entirely related with this topic), so I decided to repost it.
So, I am bout to finnish my thesis within physical chemistry that contains a couple of mathematical equations with greek characters in them. Everyone uses times new roman and i' trying to stay out of that as far as possible. So far I just have minion in my mind...maybe together with myriad.
And as a general question, which font would you pick for a informal science newsletter/book?
Thanks,
vasco
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9 Apr 2008 — 6:25am
Yep, Minion's good. You could try Stone (serif for the body text, sans for the headings, tables etc.)
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9 Apr 2008 — 7:49am
I use Minion for almost all of my academic work (with Myriad for footnotes). I've also used Hoefler with Gill Sans Light for footnotes to great effect.
9 Apr 2008 — 12:35pm
Congrats in finishing your thesis.
Some universities dictate what fonts/sizes are acceptable (and will summarily reject others), so be sure your institution doesn't have specific rules already. (Went through this with mine -- our faculty could do what it wanted, but everyone else governed by the Faculty of Grad Studies had to use Courier. Go figure.)
Minion/Myriad, Stone Serif/Sans, and Hoefler/GSL would all make fine match-ups, and would add Centaur and Helvetica as well -- I've seen a number of academic/science papers set with that combo that were quite fetching.
13 Apr 2008 — 3:13pm
I might try Gentium, as well, if you're a starving student and don't need bold/bold italic for your Greek.