Changing font of the titlepage of tufte-book

Question

I would like to change the font and the style used in the titlepage of tufte-book class.

I don't like the 'all caps' style and would rather have normal text in that page.

By reading the documentation I have found only the commands for changing fonts in other elements, such as captions, but not in the title page. In the attempts I made I was able to modify the style of the title, but other elements (like the author name) stay all caps.

This is the basic code I am using:

\title[Sample title]{%
    \setlength{\parindent}{0pt}%
    Sample \par% 
    Title \par \vspace{1cm}
    }
%   \usebox{\titleimage}}


\author{Author name here}

which produces this page:

Is there anyone who knows how to do it?

Thanks

Can you please add a simple example of how you're producing the title page? Having some code to play with is better. — egreg, Dec 04 '15 at 10:27
I modified the question and added the code + output. I removed the graphics (\titleimage) for the sake of clarity. — Antonio Sesto, Dec 04 '15 at 10:59

godbyk · Accepted Answer · 2019-02-08T13:01:06.407

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To redesign the title page, just redefine the \maketitlepage macro:

\renewcommand{\maketitlepage}{%
  \cleardoublepage
  {%
  \sffamily
  \begin{fullwidth}%
  \fontsize{18}{20}\selectfont\par\noindent\textcolor{darkgray}{\thanklessauthor}%
  \vspace{11.5pc}%
  \fontsize{36}{40}\selectfont\par\noindent\textcolor{darkgray}{\thanklesstitle}%
  \vfill
  \fontsize{14}{16}\selectfont\par\noindent\thanklesspublisher%
  \end{fullwidth}%
  }%
  \thispagestyle{empty}%
  \clearpage
}

Here I've removed the original \allcaps formatting.

edited Feb 08 '19 at 13:01

answered Dec 09 '15 at 23:53

godbyk

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For this to work I needed to convince LaTeX to let me redefine the macro. I added \let\maketitlepage\relax right before the \newcommand. – m00am Feb 07 '19 at 10:53
@m00am Whoops! Good catch! I've updated the answer to use \renewcommand. – godbyk Feb 08 '19 at 13:02
Ah, that is shorter and less ugly than my attempt. Thank you for this answer (and for tufte-latex :) ). – m00am Feb 08 '19 at 13:21

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 04 '15 at 12:07

The tufte-book class sets the title and the author using \allcaps. You can just \let\allcaps=\relax for the titlepage.

\documentclass{tufte-book}
\title[Sample title]{%
  Sample%
  \par\noindent
  Title
}
\author{Author name here}
\begin{document}
{
  \let\allcaps=\relax
  \maketitle
}
\end{document}

Changing font of the titlepage of tufte-book

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