On: ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format

[JumpCrisscross]

Do you work extensively with LaTeX?

Two columns is good, albeit annoying on mobile. But the font. The typeface kills me, and almost every LaTeX-generated document sports it.

[saurik → JumpCrisscross]

Hilariously, I would probably tolerate the HTML version a lot better if it had the font from the PDF (and FWIW, the answer for me is "no: I don't work with LaTeX at all... I just read a lot of papers").

[folmar → saurik]

If you disable the font rule

  :root, [data-theme=light] {
    /* --text-font-family: "freight-sans-pro";
  }

it switches to "Noto Serif" that is way easier on the eyes.

[GoblinSlayer → folmar]

I hard override the font in browser, designers never get it right.

[borg16 → GoblinSlayer]

what is your font of choice?

[GoblinSlayer → borg16]

Verdana

[westurner → saurik]

https://github.com/neilpanchal/spinzero-jupyter-theme /fonts/{cmu-text,cmu-mono} :

> "Computer Modern" is used for body text to give it a professional/academic look

[cozzyd → JumpCrisscross]

Hating on Computer Modern (ok, probably now Latin Modern) is something close to blasphemy.

[kibwen → cozzyd]

Computer Modern was not designed for easy viewing on screens (think about the screens Knuth would have been using in 1977), it was designed for printing in books.

[hollerith → cozzyd]

I hate Computer Modern, and I'm not even particularly fussy about typefaces.