Alternative use for uarial package in Overleaf for LaTeX

Question

For a project I am using Overleaf for LaTex and I require the uarial package that I initialised liked this:

\RequirePackage[scaled]{uarial}
\renewcommand*\familydefault{\sfdefault}

With this I get the LaTeX error: File 'uarial.sty' not found and the file cannot be compiled. If I were using Linux I would need to install and I saw here that the non-free fonts packages don't work on overleaf anymore. If I try to use the free package helvet or tgheros instead like this:

\usepackage{tgheros}
\renewcommand*\familydefault{\sfdefault} 
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

I get the error Fatal Package fontspec Error (for the file /usr/local/texlive/2019/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fontspec/fontspec.sty which I don't have direct access to anyways, right?) and an Emergency stop. How do I change this or what can I use as an alternative to uarial instead?

Yasi Yasi · Accepted Answer · 2020-09-30T08:51:33

I figured out that I needed to change the compiler for the tgheros font. This solves the compiling error and is further explained here.

Alternative use for uarial package in Overleaf for LaTeX

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