Parametrization of PostScript fonts through METAFONT - an alternative to Adobe Multiple Master fonts
Yannis Haralambous · 1993
In this paper we present a new method of parametrizing PostScript fonts in order to create font families. By changing parameter values one can obtain different weights, condensed or expanded versions, small caps as well as optically scaled fonts. The tool used to parametrize PostScript fonts is D. E. Knuth's METAFONT program. Instead of designing a font from scratch, METAFONT is used as an extrapolator of existing PostScript fonts: out of the information contained in them we build a meta-font; for every choice of parameter values, special versions of METAFONT allow us to return to PostScript and produce a new PostScript font.