Garamond and URL links

Question

I am experimenting the use of the Garamond Premier Pro font for a dissertation and I still would like to keep the URL information in the bibliography when available. Obviously, there's a font problem since the typewriter family through \texttt does not really fit well. Would you have a suggestion to fix or improve this?

Answer 1

Your URL font does not seem to fit well with Garamond because the letter has a small x-height (height of lowercase letters like "a, c, e"). I suggest to use a sans serif or typewriter font which either has about the same x-height as Garamond or can be scaled via a LaTeX package -- Helvetica (with the helvet package) is an example of the latter.

As I don't own Garamond Premier Pro, the following example shows how to scale Helvetica so that its x-height about matches that of Times (mathptmx package).

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{mathptmx}

\usepackage[scaled=0.86]{helvet}

\begin{document}

\huge

Some text in roman \textsf{and sans serif.}

\bigskip

Times' x-height: \the\fontdimen5\font

\sffamily

Helvetica's x-height: \the\fontdimen5\font

\end{document}