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Date: Wed,  8 Jul 2009 15:49:18 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Fonts
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On Jul 8, 2009, at 15:00, "Devon H. O'Dell" <devon.odell@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I have very little idea about these fuckers. I know there are
> baselines and ideas about m's and n's and kerning and whatnot.
>
> But how do you make them? I played with some TTF font generators about
> 10 years ago that I'm sure I illegally obtained somehow, but I realize
> that I have zero idea of how fonts are designed and packaged. Does
> anybody know anything about how fonts are created and packaged (info
> on subfonts would be great, info on TTF would be interesting).
>
> --dho
>

TeX fonts are done in METAFONT, a system that describes fonts in terms
of bezier curves, brush and eraser strokes. Not very popular amongst
people who suck at math.

AFAIK, most fonts are just drawn and converted to bitmaps.