alt Hacker NewsI'm not familiar with Metafont -- is this what you're referencing? https://ctan.org/pkg/metafont?lang=en
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svat • today at 1:10 PM
See “The Concept of a Meta-Font”: https://gwern.net/doc/design/typography/1982-knuth.pdf
delta_p_delta_x • today at 11:11 AM
Not the OP, but probably (please correct me if I'm wrong...) Knuth's claim was that a font's metrics could be described as geometric transformations and equations. I believe most of the TeX typefaces were described with Metafont.
Yes, that is METAFONT.
You'll find it more accessible via METAPOST, and there have been font designs made using it. Better starting link is:
https://davidcarlisle.github.io/uk-tex-faq/FAQ-mfptutorials....