HV Math; you got your Design in my Mathematics

As I'm doing some homework, placing images of my graphs into a nice little InDesign document to export into a neatly designed pdf that is easy to follow and read, I get curious about what font to use. I know that I'm not, but I certainly feel like the only person doing their math homework that spends 20-30 minutes deciding on what font to use just to write something like: 2x - 5y = 14. Not like that's a bad thing...equations can look pretty too!

HV Math Symbols

Anyways, it gets difficult sometimes to find the right font to do math in, especially when we get to some of the higher up stuff like in Calculus where those crazy math symbols are abundant. And if you do find the font that works for you, usually it's something very standard that you'd see in a textbook and that can get kind of boring.

Well I found something that would at least please the designers that might read this, because there is a font package that I found called HV Math. Although it is specifically for TeX/LaTeX (The Mathematician's version of InDesign, sort of), it's still pretty interesting that this was made for math purposes. HV stands for none other than the one and only HelVetica.

To think that the Helvetica virus would spread even to Mathematics...well at least it gave me a good chuckle.

You can find links to the TeX fonts as well as some more images of the typeface here: http://www.micropress-inc.com/fonts/hvmath/hvmain.htm