LaTeX: Greek fonts available?

Question

I am using LaTeX and the default font that it is providing. I was wondering if there are any other fonts available I can have. My preamble is:

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{book}

%\usepackage{showframe}% just for the example
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\usepackage{changepage}% http://ctan.org/pkg/changepage
\usepackage{lipsum}% http://ctan.org/pkg/lipsum
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{-2} %For chapter/section not being visible in text
\let\cleardoublepage\clearpage
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}


\usepackage[english, greek]{babel}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}

\newcommand{\gr}{\selectlanguage{greek}}
\newcommand{\en}{\selectlanguage{english}}

\usepackage[a4paper, inner=1.5cm, outer=3cm, top=2cm, bottom=3cm, bindingoffset=1cm]{geometry}
\usepackage[onehalfspacing]{setspace}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhf{}

What can I do to try other fonts too? The default one I'm getting is a little bit weird.

Answer 1

You have the GFS font collection (8 fonts), developped by the Greek Font Society (whence the name) that exist in opentype and type 1 formats and can be used by (pdf)LaTeX as well as XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX. They also have latin letters, except 2 of them: Porson and Baskerville, but there is LaTeX support for (latin) Baskerville.

At least for a part of them, there is some support for maths (I didn't check for all). For instance, GFS Artemisia relies on tx fonts, except of course for Greek letters. From this page of the LaTeX Catalogue, you will have access to all the details and font samples that you might want.

Using them is simple: if you're using (pdf)LaTeX, just write \usepackage{artemisia} in your preamble. If you're using Xe/LuaLaTeX, it's just

\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{GFS Artemisia}