METATYPE1

METATYPE1 is a tool for creating Type 1 fonts using METAPOST, developed by the Polish JNS team (Bogusław Jackowski, Janusz Marian Nowacki and Piotr Strzelczyk).^[1]

Since METAFONT cannot produce outline fonts (vector-based), a new tool was needed to help creating such fonts, primarily for use with TeX, although the OpenType versions of the fonts might be used in any other program. It is less powerful than METAFONT since no pens can be used, only filled paths, but it still allows creation of parametric fonts.^[2]

Most important fonts produced with METATYPE1 are: Latin Modern, Latin Modern Math, TeX Gyre, Antykwa Toruńska, Antykwa Półtawskiego, Kurier and Iwona.

References

Yannis Haralambous, Fonts and Encodings, O'Reilly 2007, ISBN 0-596-10242-9, pages 947-956

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Free and open-source typography

Software	FontForge Fontmatrix FreeType Ghostscript Metafont MetaPost METATYPE1 Pango TeX

Licenses	Apache License BSD License Creative Commons licenses GNU General Public License + GPL font exception GNU Lesser General Public License LaTeX Project Public License MIT License SIL Open Font License Ubuntu Font Licence

Operating system, corporate & professional	Bitstream Charter Bitstream Vera, DejaVu Cantarell Charis SIL Computer Modern, Concrete Roman Courier Prime Doulos SIL Droid, Noto, Open Sans Fira Sans Ghostscript fonts GNU FreeFont, GNU Unifont Hershey fonts Liberation, Croscore Lohit Nimbus Mono, Sans, Roman OCR-A, OCR-B Overpass PT Fonts Roboto Source Code, Source Han Sans, Source Sans, Source Serif STIX fonts Tiresias Ubuntu, Ubuntu Titling Utopia WenQuanYi

Other typefaces	Allerta Asana-Math Cardo Chandas Comic Neue Cormorant EB Garamond Gentium Inconsolata IM Fell Jomolhari Junicode Kochi Linux Libertine M+ News Cycle Open Baskerville OpenDyslexic Railway Sans Squarish Sans CT Theano Didot XITS

Groups and people	Donald Knuth Font Awesome Greek Font Society League of Movable Type Open Font Library Google Fonts SIL International

Open-source Unicode typefaces List of open source typefaces List of free software Unicode typefaces

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