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Computer Modern

Computer Modern is the original family of typefaces used by the typesetting program TeX. It was created by Donald Knuth with his Metafont program, and was most recently updated in 1992. Computer Modern and its variants remain very widely used in scientific publishing, especially in disciplines that make frequent use of mathematical notation.

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Category
Serif
Classification
Didone, Scotch Modern
Designer
Donald Knuth
License
SIL Open Font License

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Computer Modern

Nodes49
Edges48
Triples144
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.040816
Components1

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Computer Modern

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related to Others · 22
Computer Modern → BaKoMa, Basil, BlueSky, CM-LGC, CM-super, Cork, Cyrillic, EC, Greek, LaTeX, Latin, Malyshev, Malyshev's, Metafont, T1, TC, TeX, TeX Companion, The, These
related to Latin Modern · 18
Computer Modern → As, BlueSky, BlueSky Type, Bogusław Jackowski, ConTeXt, GUST, It, Janusz, Latin Modern, Metafont/MetaPost, METATYPE1, Nowacki, OpenType Latin Modern, TeX, TeX User Group Poland, The Latin Modern, The Type, Type
related to New Computer Modern · 16
Computer Modern → Additionally, All, Bold, Book, Cherokee, Coptic, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Latin Modern, New Computer Modern, Regular, The, The New Computer Modern, This, Unicode
related to CMU · 12
Computer Modern → Classical Serif, CMU, CMU Bright, CMU Serif, Computer Modern Unicode, OpenType, Roman, Sans, Sans Serif, Serif, This, Typewriter
related to Derived versions · 12
Computer Modern → He, Knuth, Metafont, OpenType, PDF, PostScript, Some, TeX, The, Therefore, TrueType, Type
related to Design · 11
Computer Modern → American Lanston Monotype Company's, Didone, In, Knuth, Modern, Modern Extended, Monotype, Scotch Roman, TeX, This, Times New Roman
related to Further reading · 11
Computer Modern → Addison-Wesley, Computers, Donald, Hardcover, ISBN, Knuth, Mass, Reading, Softcover, The Computer Modern Fonts, Typesetting Volume
related to BlueSky · 10
Computer Modern → American Mathematical Society, AMS, BlueSky, Inc, It, Open Font License, PostScript Type, TeX, The Type, Type
related to MLModern · 5
Computer Modern → It, Latin Modern, MLModern, New Computer Modern Book, Type
related to External links · 4
Computer Modern → CMU, Computer Modern Unicode, Original Computer Modern, Sourceforge

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modern computer fonts font latin tex metafont knuth type family used bluesky new opentype original text use program cmu also

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Computer ModernCategorySerif1.00infobox
Computer ModernClassificationDidone, Scotch Modern1.00infobox
Computer ModernDesignerDonald Knuth1.00infobox
Computer ModernLicenseSIL Open Font License1.00infobox
Computer Modernis aoriginal family of typefaces used by the typesetting program TeX0.90text
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Type 1instance ofThe preferred formats are now outline fonts0.80text
TrueTypeinstance ofThe preferred formats are now outline fonts0.80text
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