Example: Custom Nimbus TTF Font

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% Example of how to use a custom TTF font from the nimbus family.
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% 1. Download your TTF font file. Here we use NimbusSanNovDSemBol from
% http://www.fonts101.com/fonts/view/Uncategorized/51530/NimbusSanNovDSemBol
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% 2. Rename your TTF font file to custom.ttf.
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% 3. Follow the directions at: http://math.stanford.edu/~jyzhao/latexfonts.php 
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% 4. Upload custom.tfm, custom.ttf, T1-WGL4.enc, and t1custom.fd to writeLaTeX.
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\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}

\newcommand\customfont[1]{{\usefont{T1}{custom}{m}{n} #1 }}

\title{Example: Custom Nimbus TTF Font}
\author{writeLaTeX}

\begin{document}
\maketitle

\Huge
Normal Font Text.

\customfont{Custom Font Text!}

\end{document}