On Oct 26, 2009, at 2:08 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009, Liviu Andronic wrote:
I am trying to figure which Sans and Typewritter fonts to use in
combination with Palatino (or the TeX Gyre Pagella extension).
Liviu,
That's an interesting question. I use Palatino as my default
typeface and
leave the sans and typewriter choices as 'default.' It has never
been an
issue for me because Palatino is a serifed typeface and I had not
assumed
that there was a san-serif version. In my documents I don't use a
sans-serif
typeface, and the incidental code can be in any monospace typeface.
Rich
In his wonderful book The Elements of Typographical Style, Robert
Bringhurst suggests "pair[ing] serifed and unserifed faces on the
basis of their inner structure." And he goes on to give examples: one
might pair a modern geometric serifed face like Berthold Bodoni with a
geometric unserifed face like Futura. Now Palatino is based on
Renaissance humanist forms -- it looks like its written with a broad-
nibbed pen -- and it would not mix well with Futura, for example. But
it might mix well with Syntax, say, which is an unserifed face also
based on Renaissance forms.
Bruce
