I am using fncychap
and would like to use a different font for the chapter label than the rest of the document. Is there any easy and general way?
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Please provide some more information about your computing setup. E.g., do you use pdf(la)tex, xe(la)tex, or lua(la)tex -- or something else? Which documentclass do you use? And, which fonts are you currently using and/or looking to use for the chapter headings? – Mico Jan 8 '13 at 20:39
The exact configuration depends on the fncychap
style you’re using, but in general, there are a few macros for adapting the style, as described in section 2.1 of the fncychap
documentation. The ones for changing the font etc. are \ChNameVar{stuff}
, \ChNumVar{stuff}
and \ChTitleVar{stuff}
. Here’s an example for the style Sonny
using pdfLaTeX:
\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[Sonny]{fncychap}
% defaults:
%\ChNameVar{\Large\sf}
%\ChNumVar{\Huge}
%\ChTitleVar{\Large\sf}
% custom:
\ChNameVar{\Large\fontfamily{put}\selectfont\color{blue}}
\ChNumVar{\Huge\fontfamily{pzc}\selectfont\color{red}}
\ChTitleVar{\Large\fontfamily{phv}\selectfont\scshape\color{green}}
\begin{document}
\chapter{Hello World!}
Foo bar baz
\end{document}
For some more details on how to change the font and also how to do it with XeLaTeX, LuaLaTeX, or ConTeXt, see How do I use a particular font for a small section of text in my document?.
Also note that in some fncychap
styles, variables influence the following variables; e.g. in my example, “Hello World!” and the rules would be red if I hadn’t specified their color. I’m not sure if that’s a bug or intended behavior.