textsf
Formats text using a sans-serif font family, creating a modern, clean appearance ideal for headings and technical content.
Overview
Provides a contemporary typographic style commonly used in technical documents, presentations, and modern academic works where a clean, minimalist aesthetic is desired.
- Popular for headings, figure captions, and technical terms where traditional serif fonts may feel too formal.
- Often employed in computer science documentation, engineering papers, and technical diagrams.
- Creates excellent contrast when combined with regular serif text in the main body.
- Particularly effective for displaying programming code, variable names, and mathematical constants.
Examples
Using sans-serif text for units in scientific notation
\text{Speed of light: } c = 3.00 \times 10^8 \textsf{ m/s}Sans-serif font for algorithm names in mathematical context
\text{Using } \textsf{QuickSort} \text{ algorithm with complexity } O(n \log n)Sans-serif text for chemical compound names in equations
\textsf{H}_2\textsf{O} + \textsf{CO}_2 \rightarrow \textsf{H}_2\textsf{CO}_3