The Latin Modern family of fonts is a collection of fonts, based on Donald E. Knuth's Computer Modern family. At present, Latin Modern fonts are released in the PostScript Type 1 and OpenType formats; METAPOST (METATYPE1) sources are also available.

The main feature of the Latin Modern fonts is its rich collection of diacritical characters, covering all European Latin scripts as well as some other languages that use Latin alphabets, e.g., Vietnamese.

The aim of the “Latin Modern” project was to replace (but only as the default) a plethora of various “relatives” of the Computer Modern fonts, such as CS, PL and VN fonts.

We hope that the presentation will convince at least Polish TeX users that the LM fonts are a good replacement for the PL fonts at least in MeX and only as the default.