How to make the top heavy version of phi, with a little swirl

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I've attached a picture of the species of phi I'm referring to (although I'd prefer something with less head and more stem). Is this living in some package out there?

Messed up the picture attachment. You should be able to see it now! It's distinct from varphi. — forget this, Oct 26 '16 at 01:01
I would reccomend visiting link, it is a program where you draw what symbol you want and it searches for the latex equivelant. — Dan, Oct 26 '16 at 01:06
Yes! There we go - still very top heavy, but satisfactory. I was trying detexify earlier but could not get the symbol I wanted for some reason - being on a touch screen apparently made my drawing much more recognizable! Thank you. — forget this, Oct 26 '16 at 01:09
@user193072 -- first, welcome to tex.sx. next, what is this, now that you've found it? it looks an awful lot like \varphi to me, although a sans serif version. you've left us guessing ... — barbara beeton, Oct 26 '16 at 01:32

score 6 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:35

You could take the normal \varphi and, if in pdflatex, \unslant it.

\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{mathptmx}
\newsavebox{\foobox}
\newcommand{\slantbox}[2][0]{\mbox{%
        \sbox{\foobox}{#2}%
        \hskip\wd\foobox
        \pdfsave
        \pdfsetmatrix{1 0 #1 1}%
        \llap{\usebox{\foobox}}%
        \pdfrestore
}}
\newcommand\unslant[2][-.15]{\slantbox[#1]{$#2$}}
\begin{document}
\unslant\varphi
\end{document}

Based on my answer at Upright Greek font fitting to Computer Modern.

How to make the top heavy version of phi, with a little swirl

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