I really dislike Computer Modern. I think it is an amateur typeface. Its italic glyphs are at different angles from one another. None of its bowls are consis

I really dislike Computer Modern. I think it is an amateur typeface. Its italic glyphs are at different angles from one another. None of its bowls are consistent. It has strange and discordant differences in thicknesses across letters. The serif fonts are mangled in kerning and positioning in really weird ways. And the roman is extremely wide, extremely thin, and surprisingly hard to read when used for its primary purpose: papers. I think CM is predominant in TeX not because it's a good looking typeface. It's not predominant in TeX because it's nicely compatible with provided math symbols (which it is). CM is predominant only because for a very, very long time it was the only option available, and so people got used to scientific papers being "supposed" to look like that. But this is not a field known for its typesetting aesthetics: heck even as late as 2003 the large majority of these papers were still using the CM bitmaps rather than vector fonts, resulting in an unreadable mess when converted to PDF files. Tables are written so as to absolutely maximize the number of horizontal and vertical rule lines you can possibly stuff into a text table. The ACM's official style file is so awful and broken that multiple style files have been created to secretly patch it. Some have historically been filled with swear words. And I cannot count the number of papers nowadays which write things like $foo$, not realizing that this de-kerns the letters. Also, it appears the version from this link is missing its kerning.