[Tex/LaTex] Is Latin Modern Math really the default Math Mode font

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I am using photoshop to make a figure and I needed the same font used in LaTeX math mode. Other questions on this site all lead to "latin modern math" as the math mode font. For some letters (greek psi, for example), they look pretty right, but some are obviously incorrect. For example, the x in latin modern math is:

but in latex, it is

I can confirm that the problem is not just italics. The italic x in LMM doesn't have the fancy-serifs that the mathmode x has. The other letters are also obviously off.

What is the correct font for math mode and where can I find it?? The only other post I saw referenced the computer modern fonts on this website https://ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/cm/mf but they are in an mf format; I was only able to find one mf converter which didn't work for these files.

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This is very near to be off-topic.

If I choose Latin Modern Math on a word processor such as TextEdit and type wxyz I get the top line.

If I use the Unicode characters U+1D464, U+1D465, U+1D466 and U+1D464 I get the bottom row.

Pasting the text in a format checker such as https://r12a.github.io/app-conversion/ and converting, I get

Here' a description for the “mathematical w”:

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upgreek works fine both with XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX. Apparently it isn't clear from chemmacros' documentation though that setting the option greek=upgreek does not load upgreek and greek=textgreek does not load textgreek! The option exists to prevent chemmacros from choosing between upgreek or textgreek automatically if either of them or both are loaded by the user. Using either option without loading the appropriate package usually throws an error like

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<argument> \textbeta 

l.9 \iupac{\b-carotene}

However, when fontspec is loaded, too, the code silently fails with Latin Modern. (I should probably add some checking whether the needed packages are loaded.)

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{upgreek}% needs no be loaded
\usepackage{chemmacros}[2014/01/24]
\usepackage{newunicodechar}
\newunicodechar{β}{\chembeta}

\begin{document}    
\iupac{\b-carotene} % works

\iupac{β-carotene} % works

β % works

\chembeta % works

$\beta$ % works fine
\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Latin Modern Math in LaTeX

First a side remark: With xelatex you should never load inputenc (you did it in your example).

Beside this: Theoretically it is possible to use symbols from an open type font in pdftex. But you need to create a tfm-file, you need to create enc-file(s) and a map-entry. And as pdftex can't subset open type you probably also need to split the open type and create various type1 fonts. This means a lot of work - and imho all this new files will count as "strange packages" and so your publisher will not like it. If you really don't want to use any other package you could perhaps cheat like this:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\begin{document}
$\lbrack\!\lbrack x \rbrack\!\rbrack$
\end{document}

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