This package breaks with some of LaTeX's principles and redefines basic LaTeX commands with the aim of producing well-designed and clearly structured handouts: a sans-serif font is used by default; sections are not numbered, but highlighted by underlining; head- and footline display document information; and in order to avoid too much whitespace around the text the margin sizes are adjusted to smaller values. All in all, fancyhandout provides a means of typesetting documents not exclusively consisting of running text in a beautiful way.