fontspackages
I roughly know how fonts work in LaTeX but right know, I don't want to mess with the details. What I do want to do is to use:
\usepackage{[lmodern|palatino|times|...]}
to get matching sets of fonts. What "font sets" — like Times for text, Helvetica for captions and Courier for code — are available this way?
A pre-existing list would be nice but I suppose we could also maintain one here if none exists yet.
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.
There is a new font, called New PX, which seems to resolve most issues.
This package is meant to be a replacement for Young Ryu’s pxfonts—a complete text and math package with roman text font provided by a Palatino clone, sans serif based on a Helvetica clone, typewriter faces, plus math symbol fonts whose math italic letters are from a Palatino Italic clone. As with the related txfonts (though not as severe) the math metrics in pxfonts are overly tight. The goal of this new project is use those existing glyphs along with a few additions and with completely reworked metrics which are generally looser, but not as loose as Computer Modern math. The following small examples (double normal size) provide some idea of the extent of the changes.
This package, based on pxfonts, provides many fixes and enhancements to that package, splitting it in two parts —newpxtext and newpxmath— which may be run independently of one another. It provides scaling, improved metrics, and other options. For proper operation, the packages require that the packages newtxmath and pxfonts be installed and their map files enabled.
Here is the CTAN download page.
Best Answer
lmodernmathptmxmathpazogaramondfourierkpfontsMinionPro(requires commercial support files)Deprecated:
palatino-->mathpazotimes-->mathptmx