difference in font for sans serif

Question

I'm looking to use a sans serif font that looks like this

but when using a particular LaTeX template, the same sans serif font looks like the following:

which is not the font I'm looking for; it's too thin despite it already being in bold face. The culprit seems to be this line

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

which, when deleted, causes the 2nd font to look like the first font. Why is this the case?

Welcome to TeX.SE! Please show us your short compilable TeX code resulting in your screenshot. Then we have not to guess what you are doing ... — Mensch, Oct 16 '21 at 22:39
To follow up on @Mensch's comment: Does your employ the fontspec package? If so, is there a \setsansfont directive? If there is, what's the argument of that instruction? — Mico, Oct 17 '21 at 00:29
If you can find out what font that is, you can use it with fontspec or see if there is an 8-bit version on the LaTeX Font Catalogue. — Davislor, Oct 17 '21 at 04:27

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 17 '21 at 07:30

The fonts used with OT1 and T1 encoding are different as the cm-super fonts used for T1 cover much more font sizes:

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\Huge\bfseries\sffamily
Investigation
\fontencoding{T1}\selectfont
Investigation
\end{document}

The first font is a 10pt-font cmssbx10.pfb which has been scaled up and so is very bold, the second is a font specifically designed for this font size sfsx2488.pfb.

You could force the use of scaled up fonts with T1-encoding too, but imho it is better to use the properly designed fonts.

difference in font for sans serif

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