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QuietParticle
Moses Holmström

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High legibility

M+ M Type-1 (1M) was created to emphasize the balance of natural letterform and high legibility.

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Laura Kyle
QuietParticle

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Permissive free software licence

This is a non-copyleft license that has minimal requirements regarding redistribution of the software.

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mccauls7
Laura Kyle
QuietParticle

Pro
Five weights from Thin to Bold

The five font weights available are thin, light, regular, medium, and bold.

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Jeremy Gibson Bond

Pro
Narrow font is great for teaching

M+ 1m allows you to fit much more code on slides yet still have them be highly legible, making it a great choice for teaching.

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QuietParticle

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17 different character-encodings available

  • ISO-8859-1, Latin-1 Western European
  • ISO-8859-2, Latin-2 Central European
  • ISO-8859-3, Latin-3 South European
  • ISO-8859-4, Latin-4 North European
  • ISO-8859-5, Latin/Cyrillic
  • ISO-8859-7, Latin/Greek
  • ISO-8859-8, Latin/Hebrew
  • ISO-8859-9, Latin-5 Turkish
  • ISO-8859-10, Latin-6 Nordic
  • ISO-8859-13, Latin-7 Baltic Rim
  • ISO-8859-14, Latin-8 Celtic
  • ISO-8859-15, Latin-9 A revision of 8859-1
  • ISO-8859-16, Latin-10 South-Eastern European
  • T1 Encoding, Default 8-bit encoding in many TeX installations
  • Windows-1252, Used by default in the legacy components of MS Windows
  • WGL4, Pan-European character set defined by Microsoft
  • VISCII, Vietnamese standard character set
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Certain pseudo-graphic characters take two spaces

In this font, some pseudo-graphic characters can take up two spaces instead of one.

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