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I have just read a news about ink saving, and apparently changing font would lead to a non-negligible ink saving when printing:

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/27/living/student-money-saving-typeface-garamond-schools/

Given that I found it as an extremely interesting discovery, is there any method to make Garamond (which is the less ink consuming font) the default font for LaTeX? How to do that? I use both TexLive for both Win7 and Mac. My front-end editors are TexWorks and TexSHop, respectively.

Barzi2001
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    IMO, this is a duplicate to http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/168820/suggest-for-fonts-that-improve-the-usage-of-paper-as-alternative-to-times-new-ro I think it's very important to read http://www.thomasphinney.com/2014/03/saving-400m-font/ before pursuing this matter as proposed by http://tex.stackexchange.com/users/1973/philippe-goutet – georgd Apr 03 '14 at 13:05
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    I've found that \usepackage{xcolor}\color{white} in the preamble also saves much ink ;^) – Steven B. Segletes Apr 03 '14 at 13:05
  • Ok, I apologize. I have searched a bit before posting (I was mainly searching saving, fonts, Garamond, etc.) but I haven't seen that post. Therefore, if possible, this thread can be closed. – Barzi2001 Apr 03 '14 at 13:08
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    @georgd While the two questions are clearly related, this one asks a specific question as to how to implement a font. Maybe \usepackage{garamondx} as indicated in a comment at http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/150628/monotype-garamond – Steven B. Segletes Apr 03 '14 at 13:09
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    Also the ebgaramond package, as mentioned in the accepted answer at http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/60098/eb-garamond-on-latex. See http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/ebgaramond – Steven B. Segletes Apr 03 '14 at 13:15
  • See also http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/59403/15925 – Andrew Swann Apr 03 '14 at 13:19
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    \usepackage[garamond]{mathdesign} allows using URW Garamond No8 for maths (and text of course). – Bernard Apr 03 '14 at 13:30
  • I haven't checked but I would be very surprised, in any case, if the comparison involved the default fonts in TeX. So there is no reason to think Garamond would take less ink if used as the default in TeX documents, even if it were true that it would if set as the default for Word documents. – cfr Apr 03 '14 at 14:18
  • @StevenB.Segletes the question asks for a solution to the same probably doubtful problem, therefore I think it’s a duplicate. But I won’t insist on it. – georgd Apr 03 '14 at 17:55
  • Too bad that this young guy does not know TeX. Otherwise he would perhaps have suggested Kp-Fonts in light mode, \usepackage[light]{kpfonts}. – Speravir Apr 04 '14 at 00:15

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First of all, there is no single or unique ‘Garamond’ font as such, but for the historical fonts cut by Claude Garamont (1499-1561). However, there is a whole bunch of Garamond-looking fonts, some based on the work of Jean Jannon (1580-1658).

That said, the mathdesign package allows for typing both maths and text with URW Garamond N°8: just add to your preamble:

\usepackage[garamond]{mathdesign} or \usepackage{ugm}

It can be complemented with the garamondx package, which adds true smallcaps, oldstyle figures and the f-ligatures to the ugm set of fonts.

The newtxmath package has a garamondx option to use the math italics part of the garamondx package.

Another beautiful font available for (pdf)LaTeX, XeLaTeX, LuaLaTeX is ebgaramond, redesigned from a historical specimen that shows a Garamont roman font and a Jannon italic font at different sizes. It exists in Opentype and Type 1 formats, but it has no bold version for the moment (hence a cheaper printing!). It has been complemented a few days ago by an ebgaramond-maths package that works with newtxmath.

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