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List:       lyx-users
Subject:    Re: free Palatino Sans?
From:       Bruce Pourciau <bruce.h.pourciau () lawrence ! edu>
Date:       2009-10-27 18:54:37
Message-ID: 2921EE71-EC28-4A7C-A8C1-231623ED78C9 () lawrence ! edu
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On Oct 26, 2009, at 6:34 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote:

> On 10/26/09, Bruce Pourciau <bruce.h.pourciau@lawrence.edu> wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> I think I found a good candidate. Looking on Wikipedia for Humanist
> fonts [1], I stumbled upon Optima, originally designed by H. Zapf. The
> Font Catalogue provides a clone  called URW Classico [2]. It is
> shipped with TeX Live.
> Liviu
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanist_sans-serif#Classification
> [2] http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/optima/

I've never tried Palatino and Optima together, but they have the same  
daddy (Zapf).

Bruce
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