> Computer Modern is awful; its optical sizing is all wrong, far too thin and with too much stroke thickness variation. You are supposed to fine tune the font

> Computer Modern is awful; its optical sizing is all wrong, far too thin and with too much stroke thickness variation. You are supposed to fine tune the font constants yourself for your specific printer when installing TeX and METAFONT on your system. If your pre-generated fonts look awful, try using them on a device similar to the ones which was used by the font packager. The pre-defined modes can be found here: <ftp://ftp.tug.org/tex/modes.mf> 1. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27917366#27918650 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27917366#27918650>