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Does the serif font in manim have any ties to Hershey fonts or the BGI vector fonts packaged with 90s Borland products? I guess any TTF font can also be rendere
by rzzzt 2y ago
Does the serif font in manim have any ties to Hershey fonts or the BGI vector fonts packaged with 90s Borland products? I guess any TTF font can also be rendered line-by-line but the animation does remind me of BGI example code running on slow IBM PCs.
- stevenpetryk 2y agoI'm quite certain the typeface is Computer Modern (the primary font being CMU Serif, to be precise). It can be found by Googling it. I also distribute the fonts as an NPM library, since they are OFL. [1] [1]: https://github.com/stevenpetryk/computer-modern https://github.com/stevenpetryk/computer-modern
- rzzzt 2y agoAh, so it has TeX/Metafont origins: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Modern https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Modern
- throw_pm23 2y agoThat comment bought back memories, I never noticed how CM looked similar to one of those old Borland stroke fonts.
- Doxin 2y agoAs I understand it Computer Modern is generated from strokes, so it makes sense for it to feel somewhat similar to other stroke fonts.