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Re:The LaTeX Font Catalogue by queuebert on Thursday July 22, 2021 @10:12AM (#27919095)
Do you happen to know how he fine tuned it? I too would like a bit more weight on the font when printed.
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Re:The LaTeX Font Catalogue by teddyh on Thursday July 22, 2021 @10:14AM (#27919113)
You are supposed to fine tune the constants yourself for your specific printer when installing TeX and METAFONT on your system.

The pre-defined modes can be found here: ftp://ftp.tug.org/tex/modes.mf

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Re:The LaTeX Font Catalogue by TheRealPomax on Thursday July 22, 2021 @10:52AM (#27919588)
The art of optimizing a typeface for print is pretty elaborate, and if you're genuinely interested in learning how to do this, https://typedrawers.com is a good place to start. It's where all the font engineers, as well as foundry owners, hang out.
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Re:The LaTeX Font Catalogue by mcguire on Thursday July 22, 2021 @04:08PM (#27923663)
Set your printer to 300 dpi.

No, seriously, when UTCS replaced the 300dpi laser printers with 600dpi models, Allan Emerson was very upset because his papers suddenly looked different. :-)

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