Creation of a PostScript Type1 logo font with MetaType1
Klaus Höppner · 2007
MetaType1 is a tool created by Bogusaw Jackowski, Janusz Nowacki, and Piotr Strzelczyk for creating PostScript Type 1 fonts. It uses METAPOST, t1utils and some AWK scripts to start from a METAPOST source with some special macros, resulting in the AFM, TFM and PFB files needed to use the font as any other PostScript font. MetaType1 was used to create the Latin Modern fonts, derived from Com- puter Modern fonts but including many more accented characters and nowadays part of most TEX distributions. Other new fonts such as Iwona and Kurier have also been created by the developers of MetaType1. I came into contact with METAPOST when I wanted to convert an existing logo font from METAFONT to PostScript Type 1. Unfortunately there doesn't yet exist a tutorial or cookbook for using MetaType1. So I started to play with the example fonts supplied as part of MetaType1 and to read the comments in the source. This tutorial will give an example and the lessons I learned.