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ABOUT

MetaType

From its developer, Serge Vakulenko: "Metatype is a set of utilities and scripts for creating TrueType fonts using Metafont language. It also includes two font families, named TeX and TeX Math, based on the D. Knuth's Computer Modern fonts, but extended with Greek, Cyrillic and other characters. Metatype and TeX fonts can be used under the GPL license." The TeX family consists of TeXBold, TeXBoldItalic, TeXItalic, TeXMono, TeXMonoItalic, TeXMath, TeXMathBold, TeXMathBoldItalic, TeXMathItalic, TeXNarrow, TeX, TeXSans, TeXSansBold, TeXSansBoldItalic, TeXSansItalic, TeXWide. It comes in TTF and BDF formats. Free software in pre-alpha development, for Windows and X11/UNIX/Linux. The code is in C and Python.

EXTERNAL LINKS
MetaType
MyFonts search
Monotype search
Fontspring search
Google search

INTERNAL LINKS
Font creation programs ⦿ Metafont links ⦿ Mathematics fonts ⦿ Sites with only a few free fonts ⦿ Greek/Coptic ⦿ Type design in Russia ⦿ Cyrillic type design ⦿ Truetype font software ⦿ X windows font software ⦿ Modern style [Bodoni, Didot, Walbaum, Thorowgood, Computer Modern, etc.] ⦿