# The Art of Computer Typography

<http://signalvnoise.com/posts/3183-the-art-of-computer-typography>

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## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words)

Knuth created TeX and Metafont because he wanted to extend the care he took in his writing to the design and printing of the physical books. He shared them with the rest of the academic community by putting them into the public domain and theyre still popular today, especially in the publication of mathematic and scientific journals.

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