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Knuth is a brilliant computer scientist who has contributed much of benefit to the field, but the default Computer Modern font in TeX-generated documents is a b
by musicale 3y ago
Knuth is a brilliant computer scientist who has contributed much of benefit to the field, but the default Computer Modern font in TeX-generated documents is a blinding exception (for me at least.)
Though it's basically a copy of Monotype Modern, which I also find hard to read and ugly whenever I encounter it in old books or journals.
- svat 3y agoWhat are some examples of old books or journals you encounter, that use Monotype Modern?
- v1ne 3y agoFor me, Computer Modern Font (CMF) looks like it's an example for how to write Metafont. The serifs are incredibly pronounced, making every document typeset with it look like a Roman tombstone. But that's a common theme with (La)TeX: It tries to look like a book from a long-gone by century. It reproduces a very conservative aesthetic. (La)TeX stayed frozen in time, trying to perfect typesetting for a fixed output medium at a certain pixel density whilst the majority of users view the same text on very different displays, with different size, pixel density, aspect ratio, orientation, ...