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Does the serif font in manim have any ties to Hershey fonts or the BGI vector fonts packaged with 90s Borland products? I guess any TTF font can also be rendered line-by-line but the animation does remind me of BGI example code running on slow IBM PCs.

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I'm quite certain the typeface is Computer Modern (the primary font being CMU Serif, to be precise). It can be found by Googling it. I also distribute the fonts as an NPM library, since they are OFL. [1]

[1]: https://github.com/stevenpetryk/computer-modern

Ah, so it has TeX/Metafont origins: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Modern

That comment bought back memories, I never noticed how CM looked similar to one of those old Borland stroke fonts.

As I understand it Computer Modern is generated from strokes, so it makes sense for it to feel somewhat similar to other stroke fonts.

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