Knuth's final iteration of his re-interpretation of a c.19 Modern-style font from Monotype. The family is comprehensive, offering both sans and roman styles, and a monospaced font, together with mathematics fonts closely integrated with the mathematical facilities of TeX itself.

The base fonts are distributed as , but autotraced PostScript Type 1 versions are available (one version in the distribution, and also the distribution).

The Computer Modern fonts have inspired many later families, notably the and the families.

The author is Donald E. Knuth.