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===BlueSky=== [[File:Computer modern sample text.svg|thumb|right|Computer Modern used to set a maths formula in [[TeX]], the font's original purpose]] Computer Modern was first transformed to a [[PostScript fonts#Type 3|PostScript Type 3]] font format by BlueSky, Inc. in 1988, and then to [[PostScript fonts#Type 1|Type 1]] in 1992 to include [[font hinting]].<ref>{{cite web|archive-date=23 February 2024 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240223111552/https://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/fonts/bluesky.html|url=http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/fonts/bluesky.html |title=Blue Sky Research and Computer Modern fonts |publisher=Math.utah.edu |date=1997-12-04 |access-date=2015-06-12}}</ref> The Type 1 version has since then been donated to the [[American Mathematical Society]] (AMS) which distributes them freely under the Open Font License.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/cm/ps-type1/README.bluesky |title=The Adobe Type 1 fonts, previously known on CTAN archives as the "bluesky" fonts, are now distributed as part of the AMS fonts distribution, at CTAN:fonts/amsfonts |publisher=Ctan.org |access-date=2015-06-12}}{{better source needed |date=February 2024|reason=I cannot open this file, so no-one will be able to see the rest of whatever this reference is meant to be.}}</ref> It is found in most standard TeX distributions.
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