Set CMU Sans Serif font on pdf quarto

Question

I've been using Quarto for a few days to produce pdf documents. When specifying the main font used, I can perfectly well choose "Cambria" or "Calibri", but I cannot choose fonts like "Computer Modern Sans Serif".

    format:
     pdf:
     toc: true
     toc-title: "Text mining"
     number-sections: true
     colorlinks: true
     pdf-engine: lualatex
     mainfont: "Computer Modern"
     fontsize: 12pt

What changes should I make to the code to produce pdfs in the font of my choice? The solution proposed here won't work.

Do you have the font Computer Modern Sans Serif installed on your system? If so, the approach you are trying should work! — shafee, Dec 25 '22 at 10:40

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 24 '22 at 13:38

You could use fontfamily in your yaml header with pdflatex engine and check The LaTeX Font Catalogue, which shows that Computer Modern Sans Serif is available. Here some reproducible code:

---
format:
  pdf:
    toc: true
    toc-title: "Text mining et Première Guerre mondiale"
    number-sections: true
    colorlinks: true
    pdf-engine: pdflatex
    fontfamily: "Computer Modern Sans Serif"
    fontsize: 12pt
---

This is some example text.

Set CMU Sans Serif font on pdf quarto

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