Serious Sans for Greek and Turkish...

I love the Pro fonts -- I typeset a scientific journal, and I converted it to from Adobe Garamond to Garamond Premiere Pro for the flexibility it offers. Besides the extended ligatures, I appreciate being able to set Greek letters and Turkish accents in names of authors.

I've been looking for a contrasting sans serif font to use for headings and figure legends (the original design uses Univers Condensed), but most of the "Pro" sans serif fonts are a little too informal or quirky (i.e., Myriad, Hypatia) to feel right in scientific communication.

Is anyone aware of a basic Helvetica-Univers-Imago style of font with a "Pro" set of characters?

Thanks.

Rodney

How about ..
Neue Helvetica Pro (Linotype)

Or possibly even the ultra-complete Arial Unicode (comes with MS
Office 2003 and probably later editions)

- Herb

Thanks, I hadn't seen that version. I suspect that if I slip in Neue Helvetica instead of Univers when I need Turkish accents, no one will notice. I see that now Linotype has a "World Helvetica" that includes Greek letters (finally), but I really need a condensed version for this particular project.

Now all I need is equation typesetting software that can work with Pro fonts!

Rodney

Rodney,

I suspect that if I slip in Neue Helvetica instead of Univers when I need
Turkish accents, no one will notice.




Have you ever seen how art museums will restore a broken Greek amphora, but you can still tell where the breaks were? This is the same kind of fix. It will be noticed.

Neil

Thanks, I hadn't seen that version. I suspect that if I slip in Neue Helvetica
instead of Univers when I need Turkish accents, no one will notice.




I think you mean, "... those who are not typographically inclined won't notice." In your shoes (and I'm in those shoes on a daily basis), I'd give up and use Myriad Pro. It sounds like Myriad has too much personality for the use to which you wish to put it, but I'd rather be seen as quirky, if the other option available to me is to appear flaky.

Now all I need is equation typesetting software that can work with Pro
fonts!




InMath doesn't work for you? I rarely have to work with equations, so perhaps I can't immediately grasp the limitations of InMath, but it worked for me, most of the time. When it didn't work, I wound up roundtripping through LaTeX and placing little bits of outlined equation as inline images, which was a hack I cannot recommend.