Even though $L a T e X$ provides an extensive set of fonts, you may want to use an an external font you really like and you have already installed system-wide, this is possible with $X Ǝ T e X$ . XeTeX is a $T e X$ typesetting engine using Unicode and supporting modern font technologies such as OpenType (OTF), TrueType (TTF), Graphite, and Apple Advanced Typography (AAT). The corresponding compilers are xetex and xelatex.

[edit] Introduction

Times New Roman is one of the most used fonts, if you have this font installed in your system you can use it in your $L a T e X$ document.

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
 
\setmainfont{Times New Roman}
 
 \title{Sample font document}
 \author{Hubert Farnsworth}
 \date{this month, 2014}
 
\begin{document}
 
 \maketitle
 
 This an \textit{example} of document compiled 
 with \textbf{xelatex} compiler. LuaLaTeX should 
 work fine also.
 
\end{document}

In this example the document uses the popular Times New Roman font, this font is set by \usemainfont{Times New Roman}. The package fontsec must be imported for this to work.

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[edit] Setting fonts for different LaTeX elements

Different elements in a $L a T e X$ document are formatted with different fonts, for example in a verbatim environment the text is displayed using a typewriter style. Different font styles can be set for each context:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
 
 
  %This would work on a standard latex installation, (your local computer) 
  %-----------------------------------------------------------------------
  \setromanfont{Times New Roman}
  \setsansfont{Arial}
  \setmonofont[Color={0019D4}]{Courier New}
  %-----------------------------------------------------------------------
 
   \title{Sample font ocument}
   \author{Hubert Farnsworth}
   \date{this month, 2014}
 
   \begin{document}
 
    \maketitle
 
     This an \textit{example} of document compiled with 
     \textbf{xelatex} compiler. If you have to write 
     some code
 
     \begin{verbatim}
     usually this environment is used to display code
 
     <html>
     <head> </head>
     <body>
     <h1> Hello World</h1>
     </body>
     </html>
     \end{verbatim}
 
      {\sffamily This is a sample text in \textbf{Sans Serif Font Typeface}}
 
    \end{document

In the previous example three different fonts are used, the next lines determine the elements that will use this fonts:

\setromanfont{Times New Roman}: This is the normal font used in most of the document, Times New Roman in the example.

\setsansfont{Arial}: The elements that require a sans font, explicitly declared by the \ssfamily in the example, will be typeset with Arial font.

\setmonofont{Courier New}: Everithing that must be formatted with a Typewritter font in your document will use the Courier New font. This command has an extra optional parameter inside braces:

Color={0019D4}: This sets the colour of the text in hex html format. Especially useful when making a presentation.

You can use the fonts installed in your system, see the reference guide for a list of font-directories for different operating systems.

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[edit] Fonts in Overleaf

If you want to use your own fonts on Overleaf you must upload them first, and then configure your document to be compiled with $X Ǝ L a T e X$ . To render the example of the previous section add the next to the preamble:

\usepackage{fontspec}
 
 
% Times New Roman
\setromanfont[
BoldFont=timesbd.ttf,
ItalicFont=timesi.ttf,
BoldItalicFont=timesbi.ttf,
]{times.ttf}
% Arial
\setsansfont[
BoldFont=arialbd.ttf,
ItalicFont=ariali.ttf,
BoldItalicFont=arialbi.ttf
]{arial.ttf}
% Courier New
\setmonofont[Scale=0.90,
BoldFont=courbd.ttf,
ItalicFont=couri.ttf,
BoldItalicFont=courbi.ttf,
Color={0019D4}
]{cour.ttf}

The file names end with a .tff extension because they are True Type fonts, other fonts are also supported. Check also the Google WebFonts collection for many free fonts.

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[edit] Reference guide

Fonts directories

Depending on your operating system you can find font files (.otf/.ttf) in the following directory:

Mac OS X: /Library/Fonts
Windows: Windows/Fonts
Linux: /usr/share/fonts/ (some user-installed fonts can be in /usr/local/share/fonts/ or ~/.fonts/)

If you want to find your fonts by name, open Fonts module in your Control Panel / System Settings application or see fonts list in your Word or Libre/Open Office suite.

XeLaTeX

Contents

[edit] Introduction

[edit] Setting fonts for different LaTeX elements

[edit] Fonts in Overleaf

[edit] Reference guide

[edit] Further reading

[edit] Overleaf guides

[edit] LaTeX Basics

[edit] Mathematics

[edit] Figures and tables

[edit] References and Citations

[edit] Languages

[edit] Document structure

[edit] Formatting

[edit] Fonts

[edit] Presentations

[edit] Commands

[edit] Field specific

[edit] Class files