[Tex/LaTex] a good font for URLs to go with Palatino for the main text

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I'm looking for a nice font to use for my \url{...}s that goes well with Palatino. Courier does not look good at all. It's much too light. Helvetica (scaled .92) looks pretty good, but the ~ looks bad, raised so high.

None of these fonts looked very good to me, but I'm no designer so I'm sure my opinion could be changed if others think one of those looks good.

Best Answer

A sans serif font that blends well with Palatino (and is freely available) is Bera Sans:

\usepackage[scaled=0.86]{berasans}

URLs are often typeset in a monospaced font. Probably anything is better than Courier; I recommend Inconsolata:

\usepackage[scaled=1.03]{inconsolata}

(The specified scale factors will adapt the x-height of the respective font to that of the Palatino.)

EDIT: The Myriad font and its Open Type incarnation Myriad Pro, which are not freely available, are even better sans serif matches for Palatino. The files (excluding the actual font files) necessary to use Myriad with LaTeX can be found here.