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Is there a way to change the body font in moderncv (v0.7) without affecting the other fonts (for example \firstnamefont)?

If I change the font via setting \sfdefault it influences not only the body font but all fonts of sections and title in the document.

Thorsten
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student
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You have some predefined commands to change the fonts of some elements:

\namefont \titlefont \addressfont \sectionfont \subsectionfont \hintfont \quotefont

Redefining those commands you can change the font attributes for the associated elements. Here's a little example in which I changed the font associated to the first four commmands to use Zapf Chancery:

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,sans]{moderncv}
\moderncvstyle{classic}
\moderncvcolor{blue}
\usepackage[scale=0.75]{geometry}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

\firstname{John}
\familyname{Doe}
\title{CV}               
\address{Baker Street}{Southampton}
\mobile{+1~(234)~567~890}                         
\phone{+2~(345)~678~901}
\fax{+3~(456)~789~012}       
\email{john@doe.org}                              
\homepage{www.johndoe.com}            

\renewcommand*\namefont{\fontfamily{pzc}\fontsize{40}{48}\selectfont}
\renewcommand*\titlefont{\fontfamily{pzc}\fontsize{20}{24}\selectfont}
\renewcommand*\addressfont{\fontfamily{pzc}\selectfont}
\renewcommand*\sectionfont{\fontfamily{pzc}\fontsize{20}{24}\selectfont}

\begin{document}

\maketitle

\section{Test Section}
\cventry{2012}{Title}{Institute}{City}{}{Description}
\cventry{2012}{Title}{Institute}{City}{}{Description}

\section{Test Section}
\cventry{2012}{Title}{Institute}{City}{}{Description}
\cventry{2012}{Title}{Institute}{City}{}{Description}

\end{document}

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If you want to change the font for some particular argument(s) of, for example, the \cventry command you can define your own command to include the necessary redefinition(s); here's an example in which I defined a \Mycventry command using Zapf Chancery for the last argument of \cventry:

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,sans]{moderncv}
\moderncvstyle{classic}
\moderncvcolor{blue}
\usepackage[scale=0.75]{geometry}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\firstname{John}
\familyname{Doe}
\title{CV}               
\address{Baker Street}{Southampton}
\mobile{+1~(234)~567~890}  

\phone{+2~(345)~678~901}
\fax{+3~(456)~789~012}       
\email{john@doe.org}                              
\homepage{www.johndoe.com}            

\newcommand\Mycventry[6]{%
  \cventry{#1}{#2}{#3}{#4}{#5}{\fontfamily{pzc}\selectfont#6}}

\begin{document}

\maketitle

\section{Test Section}
\Mycventry{2012}{Title}{Institute}{City}{}{\fontfamily{pzc}\selectfont \lipsum[2]}
\cventry{2012}{Title}{Institute}{City}{}{\lipsum[2]}

\end{document}

And the output showing the comparison between \cventrya and \Mycventry:

enter image description here

Gonzalo Medina
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  • Perhaps it is not clear, what I mean by body font. The "body" in your example consists of 4 times the word "Description". So what I want is to change the font of the word "Description" (in a real example the body will be longer) in your example globally without affecting the other font selections. Sorry if that was not clear. Do you know the correct terminology for that, then I will change it in my question. – student Mar 28 '12 at 17:41
  • @student: Ah, now I see. No, as far as I know, there's not a particular name for that element; a good way to refer to it would be "the sixth mandatory argument of \cventry". Please see my updated answer. – Gonzalo Medina Mar 28 '12 at 18:03