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A bit unrelated, but can anybody tell me what typeface is used for the body text in the PDF?
by MistahKoala 11y ago
A bit unrelated, but can anybody tell me what typeface is used for the body text in the PDF?
- heinrichf 11y agoThe default TeX font: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Modern https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Modern
- amelius 11y agoHere's a handy service for that: https://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/ https://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/ Just submit a screenshot image of some glyphs of the font at a reasonable size, and let the service figure out the font!
- nani1002 11y agoPretty handy service. Any idea what's the mechanism behind the recognition software?
- gcr 11y agoThe font is "Computer Modern," the default LaTeX font. Nothing screams "I'm an academic engineering textbook!" quite like Computer Modern.
- eru 11y agoConcrete Roman could compete: http://www.tex.ac.uk/FAQ-concrete.html http://www.tex.ac.uk/FAQ-concrete.html
- amelius 11y agoIt is amazing that Knuth still had time left for some mathematics, between designing fonts :)
- rspeer 11y agoIt's amazing to me that he designed a program (METAFONT) to design fonts for him, and that the various outputs of this program actually are pretty good fonts.
- mturmon 11y ago(Obligatory: http://www.xkcd.com/974/ http://www.xkcd.com/974/ -- but Knuth solved the arbitrary condiments problem, and others besides.) The Concrete Mathematics book that resulted was a masterpiece in my opinion. I learned so much about how to computationally do discrete math from that book. And it's a very elegant package.
- mcguire 11y agoDidn't Hermann Zapf design the math font to go with CCR? [Answer] Yep, Euler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMS_Euler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMS_Euler