I’m currently using the New Computer Modern Math font in Typst and would like to work with its sans-serif variant. It renders beautifully for most mathematical symbols, but I’ve noticed that Greek letters consistently appear bold (please see the attached image for reference).
Is there a recommended way to adjust this behavior, or would it be best to contact the font’s author directly? I’m open to any suggestions or workarounds you might have.
You’re currently using the sans-serif math characters of the default “New Computer Modern Math” font. These sans-serif characters only exist for a limited set symbols, and for some reason, Unicode decided that regular (non-bold) greek is not part of that. You can find a list of all the different math character styles supported by unicode here.
However, you can use the “New Computer Modern Sans Math” font, which doesn’t require you to call math.sans anymore, as all characters are already sans-serif by default. Since you can then just use the regular greek letters, the fact that non-bold sans-serif greek math characters don’t exist, won’t bother you anymore. The font is not available on the web-app by default, but you can get it from CTAN (as NewCMSansMath-Regular.otf).
// Default font with sans-serif character set
#show math.equation: set text(font: "New Computer Modern Math")
$ sans(alpha = cos^(-1) (8 / (sqrt(29) dot 4)) approx 68.2 degree) $
// Sans-serif font with default character set
#show math.equation: set text(font: "NewComputerModernSansMath")
$ alpha = cos^(-1) (8 / (sqrt(29) dot 4)) approx 68.2 degree $
Thank you so much for the detailed explanation! That clarifies the issue perfectly. I’ll give New Computer Modern Sans Math a try, as it sounds like exactly what I need. I appreciate you pointing me to CTAN and explaining the Unicode limitations—this was very helpful!
