UK TeX FAQ -- question 247

### Where are the `am` fonts?

One still occasionally comes across a request for the `am` series of fonts. The initials stood for 'Almost [Computer] Modern', and they were the predecessors of the Computer Modern fonts that we all know and love (or hate) . There's not a lot one can do with these fonts; they are (as their name implies) almost (but not quite) the same as the `cm` series; if you're faced with a document that requests them, all you can reasonably do is to edit the document. The appearance of DVI files that request them is sufficiently rare that no-one has undertaken the mammoth task of creating a translation of them by means of virtual fonts; however, most drivers let you have a configuration file in which you can specify font substitutions. If you specify that every `am` font should be replaced by its corresponding `cm` font, the output should be almost correct.