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Re:The LaTeX Font Catalogue by zauguin on Thursday July 22, 2021 @09:36AM (#27918660)
FYI on modern LaTeX engines like LuaLaTeX (and also XeLaTeX) Latin Modern actually is the default.

But Latin Modern and the default Type 1 version of Computer Modern have exactly the same thickness, so if Computer Modern looks thinner for you then it must be some weird screen effect. (The hinting is a bit different, but I wouldn't have expected that to have a significant effect on current systems where hinting is often ignored anyway.)

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Re:The LaTeX Font Catalogue by Blaisorblade0 on Thursday July 22, 2021 @03:51PM (#27923436)
AFAIK, Wikipedia's info on the Latin Modern regressions from Blue Sky is accurate. Neither version is the original CM font or has had as much fine-tuning put into it, but (EDIT) the Blue Sky version was at least worked on by paid professionals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Modern#Latin_Modern

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