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Paulo Cunha edited this page Apr 10, 2026 · 29 revisions

Fonts & Typography

Best Sites about typography:

  1. Book Design
  2. A modern Beamer theme
  3. Typography in 10 minutes
  4. About Jan Tschichicholt in Wikipedia
  5. The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web
  6. Google Fonts

Fonts used in presentations:

Font Name Seen at Font Availability Onlne Availability
Merriweather Utrecht University Beamer Slides Theme Google Fonts Google embed code
adobe-caslon-pro Foreign Affais Magazine Google Fonts CDFonts
gentium plus ESV.org Google Fonts
sentinel ESV.org Downloaded
Fira Sans A modern Beamer theme
Sabon typeface Jan Tschichold

TrueType Fonts:

Font Obs Link
Cascadia Mono Monospaced font used in IDE´s CDN Fonts
Fira Mono Monospaced font used in IDE´s CDN Fonts
Fira Sans Nice font CDN Fonts
Open Sans CDN Fonts
PT Sans Used in Hume CDN Fonts

Code editing monospaced fonts:

Font Name Source Observations Seen at Font Availability
Fira Mono Font used in VSCode VSCode
Cascadia Mono Font used in Typst Typst

LaTeX fonts:

Font Description Usage
\usepackage{mathpazo} Palatino font image

PT Sans

@import:

<style>
@import url('https://fonts.cdnfonts.com/css/pt-sans-2');
</style>

Usage:

font-family: 'PT Sans', sans-serif;
font-family: 'PT Sans Caption', sans-serif;
font-family: 'PT Sans Narrow', sans-serif;                                                

Open Sans:

@import:

<style>
@import url('https://fonts.cdnfonts.com/css/open-sans');
</style>

Usage:

font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;
font-family: 'Open Sans Light', sans-serif;
font-family: 'Open Sans Condensed', sans-serif;                                          

LaTeX fonts

%-- [FONT SELECTION:] ----------------------------------------------------------------
\usepackage[default]{sourcesanspro}
\usepackage{amsmath}             %-- Times New Roman
\usepackage{tgpagella}           %-- 
\usepackage{palatino}            %-- Fonte cursiva de ótima aparência
\usepackage{libertine}           %--
%-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
%--  Best:
%--        lmodern - Knuths original font
%--        libertine, mathpazo, kpfonts, palatino,
%--         mathptmx (from Times Roman)
%--
%--  Others:
%--       stix, arial, tgpagella, newcent, bookman, 
%--       fourier, fouriernc, avantgarde, chancery, 
%--       helvet, ncs, times, beraserif, tgschola, 
%--       cmbright, utopia
%-- 
%-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Colors

MARP Backgound Colors:

Use Shade Code Color
Utrecht University Slides Yellow #FFCD00;
Penguin Books --khaki-800 #ffb600;
NEPE Brasil blue #8CA3D1;
Aemelia - Canivalslides. blue #C9DAF8;
Aemelia - Canivalslides. blue #A4C2F4;
Aemelia - Canivalslides. blue #9FC5E8;
Aemelia - Canivalslides. light blue #CFE2F3;
Used in Hume. #f3f1ec;
Used in Oxford website. gray #f3f1ec;
Used in Orwell TRANSITION. blue #7389c4;
Used in Orwell CITE. blue #8aa1e2;
Used in De Gruyter site blue #d4d9ff;
Used in Orwell BIBLIO. blue #b8c2f9;
Used in Copernicus slides blue #bbc7e7;
Used in Schiller site blue #d8e2ec;
Used in Schiller site blue #ebf0fc;
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