AMS Euler

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Category	Script
Designer(s)	Hermann Zapf Donald Knuth
Foundry	Linotype
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AMS Euler is an upright cursive typeface, commissioned by the American Mathematical Society and designed and created by Hermann Zapf with the assistance of Donald Knuth. It tries to emulate a mathematician's style of handwriting mathematical entities on a blackboard, which is upright rather than italic. It blends very well with other typefaces made by Hermann Zapf, such as Palatino, Aldus and Melior, but very badly with the default TeX font Computer Modern.

The AMS Euler typeface is named after Leonhard Euler.

First implemented in METAFONT, AMS Euler was first used in the book Concrete Mathematics, co-authored by Knuth, which was dedicated to Euler. This volume also saw the debut of Knuth's Concrete Roman font, designed to complement AMS Euler. The typeface is now also available in other formats, including PostScript Type 1 and TrueType.

Equations written in AMS Euler. Note that the roman text for the sine and cosine functions are rendered in a different font.

[edit] References

• Donald E. Knuth and Hermann Zapf. AMS Euler — A New Typeface for Mathematics. Scholarly Publishing 20 (1989), 131–157. Reprinted as chapter 17 of the book Digital Typography.
• Donald E. Knuth. Typesetting Concrete Mathematics, TUGboat 10 (1989), 31–36, 342. Reprinted as chapter 18 of the book Digital Typography.

[edit] External links

• User's Guide to AMSFonts, version 2.2d January 2002, PostScript document, 34 pages, file size: about 1.5 MB, which includes a section on the history of AMS Euler fonts.

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