Computer Modern

E437484

serif typeface typeface family

Computer Modern is a family of typefaces designed by Donald Knuth for the TeX typesetting system, known for its distinctive, mathematically oriented serif style.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
Computer Modern canonical	1
Computer Modern (text variant)	1
Computer Modern fonts (with related terms)	1
Computer Modern typeface	1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	serif typeface ⓘ typeface family ⓘ
availableAs	OpenType fonts (via derivatives) ⓘ Type 1 fonts ⓘ
category	text and display typefaces ⓘ
creatorAffiliation	Stanford University (Donald Knuth) NERFINISHED ⓘ
defaultFontOf	LaTeX (original defaults) NERFINISHED ⓘ plain TeX ⓘ
designedFor	TeX NERFINISHED ⓘ
designer	Donald Knuth NERFINISHED ⓘ
designTool	METAFONT NERFINISHED ⓘ
distribution	MiKTeX NERFINISHED ⓘ TeX Live NERFINISHED ⓘ
encoding	OT1 ⓘ T1 ⓘ
format	METAFONT sources ⓘ
hasDerivative	CM-Super NERFINISHED ⓘ Computer Modern Unicode NERFINISHED ⓘ Latin Modern NERFINISHED ⓘ New Computer Modern NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasVariant	Computer Modern Bold NERFINISHED ⓘ Computer Modern Bold Extended NERFINISHED ⓘ Computer Modern Italic NERFINISHED ⓘ Computer Modern Math Extension NERFINISHED ⓘ Computer Modern Math Italic NERFINISHED ⓘ Computer Modern Math Symbols NERFINISHED ⓘ Computer Modern Roman NERFINISHED ⓘ Computer Modern Sans Serif NERFINISHED ⓘ Computer Modern Slanted NERFINISHED ⓘ Computer Modern Typewriter NERFINISHED ⓘ
inspiredBy	Didone typefaces NERFINISHED ⓘ Monotype Modern 8A NERFINISHED ⓘ
license	Knuth license ⓘ
notableFeature	extensive mathematical symbol coverage ⓘ high contrast between thick and thin strokes ⓘ large x-height for math readability ⓘ optical sizes implemented via METAFONT parameters ⓘ
primaryUse	mathematical typesetting ⓘ
relatedSoftware	LuaTeX NERFINISHED ⓘ dvips NERFINISHED ⓘ pdfTeX NERFINISHED ⓘ
releasePeriod	early 1980s ⓘ
script	Latin script ⓘ
style	transitional serif ⓘ
supports	Greek letters ⓘ mathematical formulas ⓘ various technical symbols ⓘ
usedBy	LaTeX NERFINISHED ⓘ METAFONT NERFINISHED ⓘ plain TeX NERFINISHED ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.

Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: Computer Modern
Description of subject: Computer Modern is a family of typefaces designed by Donald Knuth for the TeX typesetting system, known for its distinctive, mathematically oriented serif style.

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

METAFONT → relatedTo → Computer Modern ⓘ

METAFONT → usedToDesign → Computer Modern ⓘ

this entity surface form: Computer Modern typeface

Didone typefaces → hasSubtype → Computer Modern ⓘ

this entity surface form: Computer Modern (text variant)

TeX License → isUsedFor → Computer Modern ⓘ

this entity surface form: Computer Modern fonts (with related terms)