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Metafont in the rockies: The Colorado typemaking project

1998; Springer Science+Business Media; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/bfb0053270

1611-3349

Richard M. Southall,

Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction

The paper describes the task of making fonts for a new family of typefaces designed for telephone directory composition on laser imagesetters. A key requirement for the font production method was that the visual relationships between the design variants used for the different components of directory entries should be precisely controllable over a range of character image sizes. The factors leading to the decision to program the character shape specifications explicitly, rather than taking the more normal approach of numerical contour capture, are discussed. Knuth's Metafont, employed in a somewhat unconventional way, was used as the font programming language.