[Tex/LaTex] How to combine another sans-serif math font with helvet for text

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The existing question Typeset WHOLE document in sans-serif, Including Math Mode uses the sansmath package to use helvet glyphs also in math-mode. But being not designed for use in math mode, the results don't look convincing.

According to this survey of free math fonts, it seems to be possible to use another font (mentioned are cmbright and lxfonts as similar) for math-mode in combination with helvet for text-mode. However, I cannot find pointers on how to setup the document appropriately. (How) can it be done?

The obligatory MWE:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{helvet} % for text-mode
\renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault}

% \usepackage{cmbright} % one of these for...
% \usepackage{lxfonts}  % math-mode only

\usepackage[math]{blindtext}
\begin{document}
\blindmathpaper
\end{document}

Best Answer

Update, use sansmathfonts instead of sansmath

A year later, I finally found a combination of text and math font for a helvet-based document. Source: Egreg's answer to my question about arev's strange placement of subscripts.

Result

helvet text with sansmathfonts math blindmathpaper

New code

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

\usepackage{sansmathfonts}
%\usepackage[scaled=0.86]{beramono} % for code listings
\usepackage[scaled=0.95]{helvet}
\renewcommand{\rmdefault}{\sfdefault}

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[math]{blindtext}
\begin{document}
\blindmathpaper
\end{document}

Old (helvet + arev)

I should have read the survey link I provided more carefully. The author was so nice to not only provide the comparison as pdf, but also as tex for each font combination. He explains how to combine the math font of Arev with text font of Heros, which is a Helvetica clone. So with a slight change from tgheros to helvet, my working example becomes:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{arev} % sans-serif math font
\usepackage{helvet} % sans-serif text font
\renewcommand{\rmdefault}{\sfdefault}

\usepackage[math]{blindtext}
\begin{document}
\blindmathpaper
\end{document}
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