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From: maslak@unix.SRI.COM (Valerie Maslak)
Newsgroups: comp.text.desktop
Subject: Computer Modern and TeX
Message-ID: <32289@sri-unix.SRI.COM>
Date: 31 May 89 21:40:16 GMT
Reply-To: maslak@sri-unix.ARPA (Valerie Maslak)
Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA.
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I received some email from Mcdonald at uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
that I was unable to reply to, so I'm going to post my response to
his query about why I hate Computer Modern.

Here tis:


To: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
Subject: Re: Typography--Was Re: ventura

Yes, I know that TeX is great for equations, but I find Computer
Modern to be a nonaesthetic typeface and hard to read in blocks of
text (I'm an editor, so I do a lot of blocks-of-text-reading).
It's too precious, too forced. I find the thick strokes on the letter bodies
too thick and the letters in general too...wide...squat. Too much swash.
It reminds me of a slightly awkward Bodoni heavy face.
Look at Baskerville to see the difference, or Century or Caslon.
They seem to be more open, more graceful. The letters "flow"
better. Computer Modern gives me a headache, honest.

Valerie Maslak