[Tex/LaTex] How to get the AMS mathbb font while using Palatino elsewhere

amsmathblackboard;fontsmathpazo

I'm a Latex user. I've been using Palatino for typesetting a piece mathematical text:

\usepackage{mathpazo}
\usepackage[scaled=.95]{helvet}
\usepackage{courier}

The results are good, however I don't like the blackboard-bold given by mathpazo. Is there some option to pass to mathpazo, or some nice hack that will give me back my beloved AMSmath \mathbb symbols?

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You have to restate the meaning of \mathbb:

\AtBeginDocument{
  \DeclareSymbolFont{AMSb}{U}{msb}{m}{n}
  \DeclareSymbolFontAlphabet{\mathbb}{AMSb}}

This should go somewhere after loading mathpazo.

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The following is a hack that seems to do the work, it actually comes from the source of the fourier package.

\documentclass{article}

\DeclareFontFamily{U}{futm}{}
\DeclareFontShape{U}{futm}{m}{n}{
  <-> s * [.92] fourier-bb
  }{}
\DeclareSymbolFont{Ufutm}{U}{futm}{m}{n}
\DeclareSymbolFontAlphabet{\mathbb}{Ufutm}

\begin{document}
Hello World $\mathbb{C}$
\end{document}

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

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.

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