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Digital Khatt and Visual Metafont
And now for something completely different. “DigitalKhatt is an Arabic typesetter based on a Metafont-designed parametric font that can generate a glyph with a given width during layout and justification while respecting the curvilinear nature of Arabic letters.” Visual Metafont is “a graphical tool developed to allow the… -
Typefaces designed with Metafont
Has anybody designed a finished typeface with Metafont other than computer modern? By finished, I mean something that’s actually useful to people other than students and hobbyists playing with Metafont. -
Metaflop - web based platform for Metafont
Metaflop is a web based platform for experimental fonts and type related projects using metafont. metafont is a programming language for creating entire families of fonts from a set of dimensional parameters and outline descriptions. The Modulator is a GUI to play around with a simple pen based Metafont, lots of fun. it's… -
Metafont – ?
I had never anything to do with Metafont and I wonder if anyone of you could enlighten me about its actual status, importance, merits, prospects etcª in present day typographic practice.On Wikipedia I read: “…the system has not been widely adopted by professional type designers…”;however, it may be that someone who is… -
Re: METAFONT in 2023: "Nupuram" (Malayalam) typeface by Santhosh Thottingal
This is an excellent point and a big advance in the metafont workflow!! -
Re: Visible Language archive issues freely downloadable
Also, the cover art depicts Donald Knuth's Metafont digitization of Sumner's drawings. The issue is quite an artifact of type history. -
Re: Converting Obscure Font Format into TTF
Of course, there wouldn't be tools to convert such a font to TrueType directly, as it is based on different principles. But perhaps it could be converted to Metafont, since those fonts are single-stroke, and there are tools for converting from Metafont to TrueType, I believe. -
Re: Funtauna (rectangular slab serif)
@"Simon Cozens" Yes, the typeface is being developped in METAFONT. Considering the simple rules that make up the font, METAFONT is probably a good choice. -
Re: [OTVar] Introducing OpenType variable fonts
Nick, Metafont is a parametric glyph creation program, using implicit equations and pen shapes to compute shapes. It's not remotely like OT variable fonts, which are outline based. [It would be possible to use Metafont as a production source for creating glyphs to be built into an OT variable font, just as it is possible… -
Re: Knuth Scotch
Maybe not too many people have come out and said that fonts created with METAFONT tend to look awful, but the fact that Linux, for example, uses TrueType fonts, rather than fonts based on METAFONT, that although fonts can be converted from METAFONT to TrueType, it's not very common for METAFONT to be used as a font design… -
Re: What are the great conceptual fonts?
Does anything mimic handwriting better than Metafont? -
Re: Elemaints - A Serif Family with Optical Sizes
Are the fonts available online? I'm curious to read the MetaFont sources too :) -
Re: Designing a shorthand font with FontForge
I don't know if this is helpful, but Stanislav Jan Šarman beautifully implemented Gregg Shorthand in Metafont and wrote a paper about it. His script that let you play with it is sadly gone, but here's the paper that I've archived: http://maxgraphic.com/Metafont%20Gregg%20shorthand.pdf It'd be fantastic to see an OpenType… -
Re: Regis, a new serif font
METAFONT means probably much more work for a typeface like this. The uppercase letters are easy to do in METAFONT, but lowercase will be harder and italics will be super hard. I have invested much time in METAFONT for my typeface Elemaints and the uppercase letters were quite satisfying (after several years of attempts)… -
Re: Basic characters for scientific publications
It is in the middle of my reply: you can use the glyph list from the Computer Modern Roman font as a starting point, given that it has proved useful and the standard for scientific publications in maths/physics/engineering for a few decades. Maybe I have assumed certain associations are common knowledge: Donald Knuth -… -
Re: Streamlining Dafont Creation?
Prototypo applies Mustache-style HTML templating to SVG Fonts. Its brilliantly executed and I agree with Stephen Coles that it has enourmous didactic potential. Metapolator is 'Metafont on Rails,' enabling type designers to design metafonts without coding anything, instead just following some simple drawing… -
Re: “Procedural” design software concept?
Basic concept about the properties of a on-curve control point. It's simply an adoption of the Hobby spline used in METAFONT. (spiros are a bit too complex and too "exotic" for most type drawers.) -
Re: Project Faces by Adobe
Anyhoo, stagecraft aside, it’s a great idea... kind of a visual Metafont. Beats the hell out of the primitive and clumsy skeleton files I’ve been creating in FontForge, although “Expand Stroke” is more powerful in some ways. -
Re: Metric and em size
2048 and 4096 may feel not being rounded, simply because you’re more familiar with base-10 counting; they are perfectly “rounded” in binary (base-2), as 2048=2¹¹ and 4096=2¹². Incidentally, 16,384=2¹⁴ is also a perfectly rounded binary integer. METAFONT internally works with UPM of 1,048,576=2²⁰, and our base-10 brains… -
Re: Converting Proportional to Fixed-Width
I'm sorry to be so negative, and maybe from the efforts you've already made, you have some reason to find that I'm mistaken. I felt qualified to comment partly because I have more experience with computers and their programming than I have with type.As I see it, the first basic capability you would have to achieve in…