CMU Typewriter Text Font Family : Download Free for Desktop & Webfont

Description

From Wikipedia: Computer Modern is the original family of typefaces used by the typesetting program TeX. It was created by Donald Knuth with his Metafont program, and was most recently updated in 1992. Computer Modern, or variants of it, remains very widely used in scientific publishing, especially in disciplines that make frequent use of mathematical notation.

As implied by the name, Computer Modern is a 'Didone', or modern serif font, a genre that emerged in the late 18th century as a contrast to the more organic designs that preceded them. Didone fonts have high contrast between thick and thin elements, and their axis of "stress" or thickening is perfectly vertical. Computer Modern was specifically based on the 10 point size of the American Lanston Monotype Company's Modern Extended 8A, part of a family Monotype originally released in 1896. This was one of many modern faces issued by typefounders and Monotype around this period, and the standard style for body text printing in the late nineteenth century.

In creating the TeX publishing system, Knuth was influenced by the history of mathematics and a desire to achieve the "classic style" of books printed in metal type. Modern faces were used extensively for printing mathematics, especially before Times New Roman became popular for mathematics printing from the 1950s.

The most unusual characteristic of Computer Modern, however, is the fact that it is a complete type family designed with Knuth's Metafont system, one of the few typefaces developed in this way. The Computer Modern source files are governed by 62 distinct parameters, controlling the widths and heights of various elements, the presence of serifs or old-style numerals, whether dots such as the dot on the "i" are square or rounded, and the degree of "superness" in the bowls of lowercase letters such as "g" and "o". This allows Metafont designs to be processed in unusual ways; Knuth has shown effects such as morphing in demonstrations, where one font slowly transitions into another over the course of a text. While it attracted attention for the concept, Metafont has been used by few other font designers; digital font designer Jonathan Hoefler commented that "Knuth's idea that letters start with skeletal forms is flawed" and Knuth commented "asking an artist to become enough of a mathematician to understand how to write a font with 60 parameters is too much."

Supported Languages

Unicode Blocks

CMU Typewriter Text Regular Ver 0.700 𑁋 Modified at Aug 29, 2012

CMU Typewriter Text Light Ver 0.700 𑁋 Modified at Aug 29, 2012

CMU Typewriter Text LightOblique Ver 0.700 𑁋 Modified at Aug 29, 2012

CMU Typewriter Text Italic Ver 0.700 𑁋 Modified at Aug 29, 2012

CMU Typewriter Text Bold Ver 0.700 𑁋 Modified at Aug 29, 2012

CMU Typewriter Text BoldItalic Ver 0.700 𑁋 Modified at Aug 29, 2012

CMU Concrete Roman Ver 0.700 𑁋 Modified at Aug 29, 2012

CMU Sans Serif Medium Ver 0.700 𑁋 Modified at Aug 29, 2012

CMU Serif Upright Italic UprightItalic Ver 0.700 𑁋 Modified at Aug 29, 2012

CMU Typewriter Text Variable Width Medium Ver 0.700 𑁋 Modified at Aug 29, 2012

CMU Serif Roman Ver 0.700 𑁋 Modified at Aug 29, 2012

CMU Bright Roman Ver 0.700 𑁋 Modified at Aug 29, 2012

CMU Classical Serif Italic Ver 0.700 𑁋 Modified at Aug 29, 2012

CMU Concrete Italic Ver 0.700 𑁋 Modified at Aug 29, 2012

CMU Sans Serif Oblique Ver 0.700 𑁋 Modified at Aug 29, 2012

CMU Typewriter Text Variable Width Italic Ver 0.700 𑁋 Modified at Aug 29, 2012

CMU Serif Italic Ver 0.700 𑁋 Modified at Aug 29, 2012

CMU Serif Extra RomanSlanted Ver 0.700 𑁋 Modified at Aug 29, 2012

CMU Bright Oblique Ver 0.700 𑁋 Modified at Aug 29, 2012

CMU Sans Serif Demi Condensed DemiCondensed Ver 0.700 𑁋 Modified at Aug 29, 2012

CMU Bright SemiBold Ver 0.700 𑁋 Modified at Aug 29, 2012

CMU Bright SemiBoldOblique Ver 0.700 𑁋 Modified at Aug 29, 2012

CMU Concrete Bold Ver 0.700 𑁋 Modified at Aug 29, 2012

CMU Sans Serif Bold Ver 0.700 𑁋 Modified at Aug 29, 2012

CMU Serif Bold Ver 0.700 𑁋 Modified at Aug 29, 2012

CMU Concrete BoldItalic Ver 0.700 𑁋 Modified at Aug 29, 2012

CMU Sans Serif BoldOblique Ver 0.700 𑁋 Modified at Aug 29, 2012

CMU Serif BoldItalic Ver 0.700 𑁋 Modified at Aug 29, 2012

CMU Serif Extra BoldSlanted Ver 0.700 𑁋 Modified at Aug 29, 2012

License

This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1. This license is copied together with this font package in OFL.txt, and is also available with a FAQ at: http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Converted by Andrey V. Panov from TeX fonts. Some glyphs are copied from Blue Sky fonts released by AMS.

http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

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CMU Typewriter Text Font Family