The KaTeX Team

We don't know much about the individual creators behind KaTeX yet, but their work speaks volumes about their deep understanding of both mathematics and web performance. The team clearly includes people who appreciate the craft of mathematical typesetting and the engineering challenges of making it fast for the web.

KaTeX was born from frustration with existing math rendering solutions that were slow and caused page reflows. The creators saw that beautiful mathematical typography shouldn't come at the cost of performance, and set out to prove that Donald Knuth's TeX algorithms could run fast in browsers.

KaTeX takes mathematical expressions written in TeX notation and renders them as crisp, properly formatted equations on web pages. It works synchronously without needing to reload or reflow the page, producing the same high-quality mathematical typography that TeX has been famous for since the 1970s.

With 6,295,740 weekly downloads, KaTeX has become the go-to solution for displaying math on the web. It powers educational platforms, research websites, and documentation systems wherever beautiful mathematical notation is needed without sacrificing speed.

KaTeX has become foundational infrastructure for the scientific web, enabling everything from online textbooks to research platforms to display mathematics properly. Its self-contained nature and consistent output make it a reliable building block that other tools can depend on.