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Old 11-27-2021, 11:02 AM   #11
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Originally Posted by hobnail View Post
Computer Modern had slanted as well as italic. It was a great font family in the sense that Knuth designed a base font with Metafont and then by using parameters was able to tweak them and make all of the different variations. So they all worked together very well. Sort of similar to Adobe's Multiple Masters except that the Metafont fonts were bitmap fonts. There's something newer these days but I forget its name.
The thing with Computer Modern, though was that the oblique versus italic seemed sort of...random, if I recall correctly--right?

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