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Re:My favourite fonts to use with LaTeX (2022) by behnamoh on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @08:57PM (#44047359)
I might pay the karma tax on this one but I've come to really appreciate "Times New Roman" (or TeX Gyre Termes + STIXTwoMath).

Like the OP, I used to care a lot about fonts. Heck, at some point my Windows boot time got slowed down because of the sheer number of fonts it had to load!

I used to think the default Latex font gives off a "serious" and "scientific" vibe. And I thought to myself: why would anyone ever use TNR when more "soulful" fonts exist?

Now that I'm older (33), I resort back to TNR or TeX Gyre Termes but with one change: I add "FakeBold" to text to make it look like old papers and books: https://x.com/OrganicGPT/status/1920202649481236745/photo/1. I just want my text to convey my thoughts, and I don't want any fancy "serifness" get in the way (so no to Bembo and Palatinno).

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Re:My favourite fonts to use with LaTeX (2022) by ayongpm on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @01:23AM (#44048523)
I swear I was looking for exactly what FakeBold did years ago. Thanks for sharing that!
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Re:My favourite fonts to use with LaTeX (2022) by drwu on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @01:44AM (#44048612)
Unfortunately, the rendering of fakebold (especially if the factor is not 2) depends on PDF readers and printers. Some PDF programs handle it well, some fix the factor at 2, some do not implement it at all.
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Re:My favourite fonts to use with LaTeX (2022) by GavinMcG on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @02:10AM (#44048726)
How much is FakeBold doing there, though? Easy to say it’s “just” TNR, but if the features of TNR that make it characterless have been supplanted with something soulful, then haven’t you just found a soulful typeface that you like?
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Re:My favourite fonts to use with LaTeX (2022) by sneak on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @02:57AM (#44048964)
the default latex font is called Computer Modern, and I specifically use a webfont version of it on my personal site/blog because of the “serious” and “scientific” vibe you describe.
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