Set author font in scrartcl

Question

I've got a document using the scrartcl and fontspec packages, like so:

\documentclass[a4paper]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{fontspec}

I'm setting the fonts using the following:

\setmainfont[Ligatures={Common,TeX}]{Minion Pro}
\setsansfont{Myriad Pro}
\setmonofont[Scale=0.8]{Consolas}

Then creating a title:

\title{Document Title}
\author{Author Name}
\date{}
\maketitle

This works great, however while the title is set in my sans serif font, the author appears in the main font. What do I need to do to get the author to appear in the sans serif font as well?

Answer 1

As soon as the current KOMA-Script version (3.11b) is updated, the following addition to your preamble should suffice:

\setkomafont{author}{\sffamily}

With version 3.11b, one may use the xpatch package to add \sffamily to the code responsible for typesetting the author names.

\documentclass[a4paper]{scrartcl}

\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont[Ligatures={Common,TeX}]{Minion Pro}
\setsansfont{Myriad Pro}
\setmonofont[Scale=0.8]{Consolas}

\usepackage{xpatch}

\makeatletter
\xpatchcmd{\maketitle}{% with the `titlepage` class option
  \@author
}{%
  \sffamily\@author
}{}{}
\xpatchcmd{\@maketitle}{% without the `titlepage` class optipn
  \@author
}{%
  \sffamily\@author
}{}{}
\makeatother

\begin{document}

\title{Document Title}
\author{Author Name}
\date{}
\maketitle

\end{document}