Computer Modern is the family of typefaces used by default by the typesetting program TeX. It was created by Donald Knuth with his Metafont program, and was most recently updated in 1992. Computer Modern, or variants of it, remain very widely used in scientific publishing, especially in disciplines that make frequent use of mathematical notation.
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