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Oh man, that is awful -- you weren't kidding. I don't know what's wrong with plain ol' Computer Modern (as TeX uses by default).
by chungy 5y ago
Oh man, that is awful -- you weren't kidding.
I don't know what's wrong with plain ol' Computer Modern (as TeX uses by default).
- ahartmetz 5y agoComputer Modern is IMO way too thin and has huge, pointy serifs. I like Palatino (Latex: mathpazo) best, but Garamond - a similar style - is fine, too.
- empthought 5y agoHave you tried Charter?
- ahartmetz 5y agoCharter seems OK, the thickness variation seems somehow strange to me (couldn't decide whether to vary it or not?), but I like that it doesn't vary thickness quite as much as Palatino on numeric digits.
- mananaysiempre 5y agoFor TeX typesetting Utopia (and derivatives like Fourier and Erewhon) is also good if you want something that was designed for book (not journal or newspaper) body text but has a less mediaeval feel (and more Cyrillic, sigh).
- vngzs 5y agoComputer Modern looks terrible on computers (ironically!). It's only tolerable on relatively high-DPI printed documents which are capable of rendering the intricate, narrow parts of the legends. I wish people would stop using it for digitally distributed PDFs.
- howinteresting 5y agoI think Computer Modern looks fantastic digitally (even on a 110ppi screen), and lends an air of seriousness to the text.
- chungy 5y agoI agree with this. I've never really seen it as objectionable.
- neysofu 5y agoI can't help but wonder if that's subconsciously learnt by association of the typeface with (La)TeX and academia rather than based on the sole merits of Computer Modern itself. If we're just looking at the typography, Computer Modern is quite average and its screen legibility is horrible (vertical strokes are way too thin).
- chungy 5y agoExposure to Computer Modern primarily via PDFs in the late 1990s-early 2000s was the reason I became interested in learning what produced such documents in the first place; I don't remember how, but it wasn't hard to learn about TeX after that. The outstanding quality of Computer Modern even on the low-res screens of those days is what appealed to me (to be fair, TeX's ability to produce professional-quality kerning, hyphenation, line density, et al, also contributed). I fell in love with it even before I knew what TeX was.
- hyakosm 5y agoComputer Modern is too thin for laser printers and uncomfortable on computers screens (low or hi-DPI). I feel it less readable than Garamond for French publications.
- a9h74j 5y agoIIRC Garamond looks great when set by TeX.