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... A superb achievement of Knuth's work on the Computer Modern family of typefaces [33] is that he was not only able to reproduce closely an existing traditional font (Monotype Modern 8A, used in his Art of Computer Programming treatise), but to generalize the character programs with a few dozen well-chosen parameters in such a way as to allow changes in those parameters to produce several different styles that are still recognizably members of the Computer Modern type family, and to allow tiny tweaks to those characters to accommodate the imaging characteristics of various output devices. ...