[1][2] 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.

Zapf designed and drew the Euler alphabets in 1980–81 and provided critique and advice of digital proofs in 1983 and later.

Euler Metafont development was done by Stanford computer science and/or digital typography students; first Scott Kim, then Carol Twombly and Daniel Mills, and finally David Siegel, all assisted by John Hobby.

[3] This volume also saw the debut of Knuth's Concrete Roman font, designed to complement AMS Euler.

Since the updates were made directly to the Type 1 files, the (incompatible) Metafont sources have been removed from the distribution.