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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en" xmlns:m="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML">
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<meta
charset="utf-8"
name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"
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<title>Fun with Fonts</title>
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<h1 style="margin-top: 0;">Typography for Academic Texts</h1>
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<span class="whiteOnRed" style="margin-left: -1px;">1</span>
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Long-Form Texts
<p class="section-box-text">Tips on the design of long-form academic texts—such as articles, dissertations, bachelor’s/master’s theses, and term papers:
<ul class="section-box-text">
<li>choosing a suitable typeface,</li>
<li>choosing a suitable font size,</li>
<li>determining appropriate line width and lince spacing, and</li>
<li>integrating tables and figures into the page design.</li>
</ul>
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<span class="whiteOnRed" style="margin-left: -1px;">2</span>
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Presentations
<p class="section-box-text">Tips on the design of academic presentations—such as seminar/conference presentations and lecture slides:
<ul class="section-box-text">
<li>choosing a suitable typeface,</li>
<li>choosing a suitable color scheme,</li>
<li>integrating tables and figures into the slide design.</li>
</ul>
</p>
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Posters
<p class="section-box-text">Tips on the design of posters—for conferences and exhibitions:
<ul class="section-box-text">
<li>laying out the elements—figures, tables, text—systematically,</li>
<li>choosing a suitable color scheme, and</li>
<li>choosing a suitable font size.</li>
</ul>
</p>
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<h2 class="rule-below">The Fundamental Issue: Difficulty Meets Nonexperts</h2>
<p><b>Difficulty.</b> Academic texts feature many peculiarities that only rarely occur in nonacademic texts. Examples include
<ul>
<li><sup>superscripts</sup> and <sub>subscripts</sub>,</li>
<li>letters from non-Latin alphabets (e.g., Greek letters like α, β, and Γ),</li>
<li>chemical and mathematical formulas—both inline formulas like \(y_t = β_1 + β_2\,x_{t,2} + β_3\,x_{t,3} + ε_t\) and display formulas like \[ f″(x) ≔ {`d^2 f(x)}/{`d x^2}.\]</li>
</ul>
</p>
<p>Academic texts are, therefore, among the most difficult to typeset.</p>
<p><b>Nonexperts.</b> At the same time, a large share of academic texts is typeset by nonexperts, such as
<ul>
<li>students writing a (bachelor’s/master’s/doctoral) thesis,</li>
<li>researchers submitting a manuscript to a journal or posting a working paper online, and</li>
<li>book authors/editors who are frequently required by the publishing house to carry out the typesetting themselves.</li>
</ul>
</p>
<h2 class="rule-below">This Website</h2>
<p>This website addresses the peculiarities of academic texts and provides assistance to those involved in typesetting academic publications. It offers downloads of <a href="https://github.com/HolgerGerhardt/TeXTemplates" target="_blank">LaTeX/XeLaTeX templates</a> for academic texts. In these templates, issues such as choosing a suitable typeface, reasonable page margins, appropriate line spacing, etc. are taken into account.
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<b><a href="criteria.html">What’s the Problem?</a></b><br />
Complex Hierarchies
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<b><a href="beauty-tips.html">Beauty Tips</a></b><br />
Seriously Elegant
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<b>LaTeX/XeLaTeX Templates</b>
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<b><a href="https://github.com/HolgerGerhardt/TeXTemplates/blob/master/Template_Dissertation.pdf" target="_blank">Long-Form Texts</a></b><br />
Articles, dissertations, bachelor’s/<wbr>master’s theses
</p>
<p class="topic-box">
<b><a href="https://github.com/HolgerGerhardt/TeXTemplates/blob/master/Template_Presentation_4-3.pdf" target="_blank">Presentations</a></b><br />
Talks, lecture slide
</p>
<p class="topic-box">
<b><a href="https://github.com/HolgerGerhardt/TeXTemplates/blob/master/Template_Poster.pdf" target="_blank">Posters</a></b><br />
Conference posters, exhibition posters
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