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> Let's say I want to buy a font, the Quadraat Sans for example, a
> goodlooking sans serif by Fred Smeijers (www.fontshop.com).  FontShop can
> provide those fonts in PostScript. How difficult is it, to use fonts like
> these in ConTeXt?

In short, there are two main steps:

1) generate tfm and map file for use with tex + dvips or pdftex. The most
flexible way is to use fontinst (but not the easiest one).

2) make a font definition file for context. It should be easy to make it
based on an existing one.

If you send me the afm's, I can do it for you.

btw, fontinst can generate .fd file for latex nfss. Maybe it would be nice
to have this feature in context? I have a package called plnfss (plain
nfss), which is a simple nfss written in plain for this purpose.

Thanh