The irony of LaTeX (2024-09-12)

(taking some notes here; i want to organize this better at some point) The Computer Modern font was never intended to look so thin. But because the font program that Knuth designed (Metafont) was so complicated to use, almost no one adjusted the “blacker” parameter of the font to a suitable value for their printer (actually this is not quite right; if you take a look at modes.mf that comes with…