Computer Modern was designed to be printed with ink presses, and so it assumes a certain amount of running in the liquid. If it will be rendered solely on-scre

Computer Modern was designed to be printed with ink presses, and so it assumes a certain amount of running in the liquid. If it will be rendered solely on-screen, it needs to be thickened slightly. Fortunately this is easy with Metafont; unfortunately the default TeX installations don't do it.