Re: Sans-serif free Unicode font (was Re: Ghostscript 9.15)

[Alexander Kobel]

On 03/25/2015 06:58 PM, Carl Sorensen wrote:
> On 3/25/15 6:54 AM, "address@hidden" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > I think the fonts we're looking for should have a similarly classic or
> > old-fashioned look as Century.
> >
> > Maybe we should look for fonts that (optionally) ship with texlive.
> [...]
> I think that the following show some promise:
>
> Alegreya Sans

+1. The entire Alegreya family (also the serif) is beautiful, is not too 
wasteful with horizontal space, and comes with a large set of variants 
(including proper small capitals). I like it a lot in scores.

Another font I used is Optima. It's almost overused, it's not a strict 
sans-serif in my opinion, because the varying widths of the strokes give 
the impression "fake" serifs to some degree, but it's beautiful. And 
with MgOpen Cosmetica, URW Classico (one of GS default fonts) and Linux 
Biolinum, there are a number of high-quality free siblings.

W.r.t. a monospace font, the M+ font collection comes to my mind. It has 
some nice families which look good in print, too. It's a large 
collection, but e.g. M+1m or M+2m should be enough. (Although the latter 
has a pretty unique character with it's g glyph; not sure if that fits 
overall.)


Just my 2 pence,
Alexander