How do you change the document font in LaTeX

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How do you change the font for the whole document to sans-serif  or anything else

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This article might be helpful with changing fonts.

From the article:

The commands to change font attributes are illustrated by the following example:

  \fontencoding{T1}
  \fontfamily{garamond}
  \fontseries{m}
  \fontshape{it}
  \fontsize{12}{15}
  \selectfont

This series of commands set the current font to medium weight italic garamond 12pt type with 15pt leading in the T1 encoding scheme, and the \selectfont command causes LaTeX to look in its mapping scheme for a metric corresponding to these attributes.

User · Answer

For a different approach  I would suggest using the XeTeX or LuaTex system  They allow you to access system fonts  TrueType  OpenType  etc  and set font features  In a typical LaTeX document  you just need to include this in your headers    usepackage fontspec   defaultfontfeatures Mapping tex-text Scale MatchLowercase   setmainfont Times   setmonofont Lucida Sans Typewriter    It s the fontspec package that allows for  setmainfont and  setmonofont  The ability to choose a multitude of font features is beyond my expertise  but I would suggest looking up some examples and seeing if this would suit your needs   Just don t forget to replace your favorite latex compiler by the appropriate one  xelatex or lualatex

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I found the solution thanks to the link in Vincent s answer     renewcommand  familydefault   sfdefault    This changes the default font family to sans-serif

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As second says  most of the  design  decisions made for TeX documents are backed up by well researched usability studies  so changing them should be undertaken with care  It is  however  relatively common to replace Computer Modern with Times  also a serif face     Try  usepackage times

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