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fonts for slides
I am looking for some recommendations for fonts to use in LaTeX/Beamer slides. I am limited to fonts bundled with CS3, Windows system fonts, and free as in beer fonts. The slides are not too busy, but do contain short blocks of text.
Thanks!
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13 Mar 2009 — 7:46pm
What's the topic?
How large will the point size be, and at
what distance from the [furthest] viewer?
hhp
13 Mar 2009 — 8:39pm
The slides accompany lectures, seminars, and conference papers. The audience is typically students or academics in law or urban planning. The rooms range from seminar rooms, to midsize lecture halls, to large auditoriums (I usually test the slides in advance from the back row and adjust the size before compiling).
If you have several recommendations for different scenarios, I'll take them all!
13 Mar 2009 — 9:23pm
Are you looking for visual consistency across all your slides, or just a toolbox of fonts you can pick and choose from depending on the needs?
When you say Windows system fonts, are you including Vista?
What are the CS3 fonts?
hhp
13 Mar 2009 — 9:35pm
I like consistency, sometimes.
I am looking for a workhorse, but I will vary on a whim. I do have the vista fonts, and the CS3 fonts are these: http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/CS3fonts.html
Thanks!
14 Mar 2009 — 7:41am
Give Candara a shot. It's a screen font, it's very open (including trapping), plus it has the right level of liveliness - enough to inject some interest in the lo-fi world of slides.
hhp
14 Mar 2009 — 11:50am
Thanks, I will. It may be tricky to use in LaTeX, but I'll give it a shot.
14 Mar 2009 — 3:53pm
Eran, using Candara with XeTeX isn't difficult at all.
14 Mar 2009 — 8:52pm
Steve, XeTeX is great, but I'm a LyX user, so I'd have to export every document to .tex first, then compile. Also, won't I have problems with \pgfpagesuselayout?