Which font has the following features?

Question

I want to use a font available in TeX that have the following features:

1. Sans
2. g is as usual sans g
3. a likes uprighted italic math $a$ ɑ
4. with ā á ǎ à and the like for o, e, i, u, ü, AOEIUÜ

Answer 1

See http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/sansseriffonts.html

Avantgarde suffie. Add \usepackage{avant} to use it.

Answer 2

If you want to use a sans serif font for your main text and for math, try the mathastext package. http://jf.burnol.free.fr/showcase.html shows many examples of the usage.

Answer 3

You must be looking for a Pinyin font, right?

• The Monaco font on the Mac has all the features you want.
• If you cannot obtain Monaco, SimHei will also do, except that you’ll need to use U+0251 and U+0261 for upright script a and g, respectively.
• If you don’t stick with criteria 2) and 3), Arial Unicode MS would be another alternative.