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Re:The LaTeX Font Catalogue by mcguire on Thursday July 22, 2021 @04:03PM (#27923603)
"The serifs in Computer Modern are thicker than the thin stems of letterforms."

That's true of all serif fonts with thin stems, no?

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Re:The LaTeX Font Catalogue by crazygringo on Thursday July 22, 2021 @04:39PM (#27924013)
No. Bodoni is the quintessential thin-stem font, and you can see that the serifs are simply a continuation of the thin stroke, not any thicker:

https://www.google.com/search?q=bodoni&tbm=isch

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