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- The Latin Modern family1 is a recent collection of fonts authored by Bogusław Jackowski and Janusz M. Nowacki. They are intended as the successors to Donald Knuth’s Computer Modern fonts for the Unicode age, to provide the means for typesetting as many languages as possible that use the Latin-based alphabet.
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The Latin Modern fonts are derived from the famous Computer Modern fonts designed by Donald E. Knuth and described in Volume E of his Computers & Typesetting series.
The Latin Modern fonts with a range of optical sizes are: roman upright, italic, oblique, and bold extended; sans upright and oblique; and typewriter upright. These optical size variations constitute 32 of 69 fonts in the collection.
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LM and CM are modern types while Libertine is transitional. Most famous transitional types are Times Roman and Times New Roman. In fact Libertine aims as a opensource replacement for Times. Notable modern types are Bodoni, Didone, etc. Classification of types are arguable.
Jenson’s typeface was the first to be created based on typographic principles rather than manuscript models. His Roman type is the basis for multiple modern fonts, including Centaur, created by Bruce Rogers in 1914, and Adobe Jenson, created by Robert Slimbach in 1996.
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Computer Modern is the first font made using METAFONT system. This system includes a programming language and a rasterizer (turning mathematical curves into bitmaps that can be printed). It's a highly parameterized font that generates and entire font family just by tweaking these parameters, to the extent that you can have slightly different ...
This repository contains fonts and css files to be able to use the ‘Latin Modern’ font family on a modern web browser. These were created by GUST by working on the foundation of the Computer Modern by Donald Knuth.
Using the Latin Modern fonts. The lm fonts are an exciting addition to the armoury of the (La)TeX user: high quality outlines of fonts that were until recently difficult to obtain, all in a free and relatively compact package.
