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Computer Modern looks terrible on computers (ironically!). It's only tolerable on relatively high-DPI printed documents which are capable of rendering the intri
by vngzs 5y ago
Computer 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.