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by WillAdams 159 days ago
Why do this rather than just using METAFONT/METAPOST/METATYPE1?
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gucci-on-fleek 159 days ago
It's not very easy to use Metafont and its derivatives to produce a modern TrueType/OpenType font. Even the TeX Gyre fonts use FontForge [0] rather than Metafont.

[0]: https://ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/tex-gyre/source

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