Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Fonts of Pleasure

Back in the day, I struggled through learning LaTeX for several reasons, one of which was the superb Computer Modern fonts that it comes with. Was there a chance that one could use said fonts in other contexts--like, say, a word processor?

Enter Latin Modern, a slightly-edited version of CM for other contexts. Last week I downloaded and installed LM on my laptop and have set it up for my word processor, my terminal emulator, web browsers... The most random and pointless sites now look the very picture of dignity!

"Font" means "source". Beautiful fonts are a source of beauty, and it is only right that we make use of them.

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