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Lol. I was going to comment when there were only two or so others that I really dislike the font used on the website. I loathe the old school Latex look. I app

Lol. I was going to comment when there were only two or so others that I really dislike the font used on the website. I loathe the old school Latex look. I appreciate Latex as a markup language, but the computer modern fonts always drove me nuts. To each their own though. It's interesting to me that someone else had the opposite reaction.

OscarCunningham 5y ago
I'm a mathematician, so it might be that it's calmingly familiar rather than any typographical excellence.
- derbOac 5y ago
  I do a fair amount of statistics research. I'm not sure I've quite found my holy grail of math typeface (although I can think of a couple that come close in different ways), but computer modern / etc was never it for me. I can totally see how it would feel sort of comforting though. I hadn't thought about it before but it does remind me of old Springer texts, and I could see how that would feel "homey" or something. This conversation has me kind of "resetting" my perspective on it a bit.
vngzs 5y ago
If you haven't, check it out from a high DPI printer. The font is much more tolerable there. I used uBlock customization to block the font from loading to read the article.
- pooper 5y ago
  > I used uBlock customization to block the font from loading to read the article. For those on Mozilla Firefox[note], please also give the reader view a try. Reader view is also available on other browsers such as Safari on the iPhone. [note] - (if you are not on it, please consider downloading and using it but that is a different conversation)
majewsky 5y ago
Computer Modern fonts are very much designed for printing. On a screen, the really narrow parts of each letter are usually close to unbearable.
- yakubin 5y ago
  It depends on the screen and the software. On Linux in Firefox this page's legibility is pretty poor. However, when I was reading this page on iPhone, it was perfectly legible. Also, Computer Modern on the same screen, but rendered by Okular or Evince, when viewing a LaTeX document, is also perfectly legible. When it is rendered properly, I find it very pretty and legible.

OscarCunningham 5y ago

I'm a mathematician, so it might be that it's calmingly familiar rather than any typographical excellence.

derbOac 5y ago
I do a fair amount of statistics research. I'm not sure I've quite found my holy grail of math typeface (although I can think of a couple that come close in different ways), but computer modern / etc was never it for me. I can totally see how it would feel sort of comforting though. I hadn't thought about it before but it does remind me of old Springer texts, and I could see how that would feel "homey" or something. This conversation has me kind of "resetting" my perspective on it a bit.

vngzs 5y ago

If you haven't, check it out from a high DPI printer. The font is much more tolerable there. I used uBlock customization to block the font from loading to read the article.

pooper 5y ago
> I used uBlock customization to block the font from loading to read the article. For those on Mozilla Firefox[note], please also give the reader view a try. Reader view is also available on other browsers such as Safari on the iPhone. [note] - (if you are not on it, please consider downloading and using it but that is a different conversation)

majewsky 5y ago

Computer Modern fonts are very much designed for printing. On a screen, the really narrow parts of each letter are usually close to unbearable.

yakubin 5y ago
It depends on the screen and the software. On Linux in Firefox this page's legibility is pretty poor. However, when I was reading this page on iPhone, it was perfectly legible. Also, Computer Modern on the same screen, but rendered by Okular or Evince, when viewing a LaTeX document, is also perfectly legible. When it is rendered properly, I find it very pretty and legible.