On: Random number generator enhancements for Linux 5.1...

[derbOac]

Lol. I was going to comment when there were only two or so others that I really dislike the font used on the website.

I loathe the old school Latex look. I appreciate Latex as a markup language, but the computer modern fonts always drove me nuts.

To each their own though. It's interesting to me that someone else had the opposite reaction.

[vngzs → derbOac]

If you haven't, check it out from a high DPI printer. The font is much more tolerable there.

I used uBlock customization to block the font from loading to read the article.

[pooper → vngzs]

> I used uBlock customization to block the font from loading to read the article.

For those on Mozilla Firefox[note], please also give the reader view a try.

Reader view is also available on other browsers such as Safari on the iPhone.

[note] - (if you are not on it, please consider downloading and using it but that is a different conversation)

[majewsky → derbOac]

Computer Modern fonts are very much designed for printing. On a screen, the really narrow parts of each letter are usually close to unbearable.

[GrumpySloth → majewsky]

It depends on the screen and the software. On Linux in Firefox this page's legibility is pretty poor. However, when I was reading this page on iPhone, it was perfectly legible.

Also, Computer Modern on the same screen, but rendered by Okular or Evince, when viewing a LaTeX document, is also perfectly legible.

When it is rendered properly, I find it very pretty and legible.

[OscarCunningham → derbOac]

I'm a mathematician, so it might be that it's calmingly familiar rather than any typographical excellence.

[derbOac → OscarCunningham]

I do a fair amount of statistics research. I'm not sure I've quite found my holy grail of math typeface (although I can think of a couple that come close in different ways), but computer modern / etc was never it for me.

I can totally see how it would feel sort of comforting though. I hadn't thought about it before but it does remind me of old Springer texts, and I could see how that would feel "homey" or something. This conversation has me kind of "resetting" my perspective on it a bit.