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  • konrad ritter
    konrad ritter Posts: 204
    edited January 2021
    Thank you, Mr Miller. I'm grateful for your gift. 

    May I ask you, though, exactly in what respect is it different from Knuth's original font? Is the average stroke width greater? 

    PS. Now that I've looked at it, I see. Yes, it's indeed darker than Knuth's. Thanks much, again. 
  • Daniel Benjamin Miller
    Daniel Benjamin Miller Posts: 117
    konrad ritter said:
    Thank you, Mr Miller. I'm grateful for your gift. 

    May I ask you, though, exactly in what respect is it different from Knuth's original font? Is the average stroke width greater? 

    PS. Now that I've looked at it, I see. Yes, it's indeed darker than Knuth's. Thanks much, again. 

    I will point out that darkness was parametrized in Knuth's METAFONT. Different modes in MF produce blacker fonts for different printers (cf. the lexmarkr mode). But when BlueSky made their Type 1 fonts, they didn't choose a very black version of CM.

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