Luc Devroye (copyright)
School of Computer Science
McGill University
Montreal, Canada H3A 2K6
luc@cs.mcgill.ca
http://jeff.cs.mcgill.ca/~luc/index.html
http://jeff.cs.mcgill.ca/~luc/fonts.html
Metafont links
Last update: Wed Nov 30 13:36:03 EST 2005
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Luc Devroye (copyright) |
A metafont with a series of "pointing hand" dingbats in various orientations, including pointing left and right, and "reverse video" versions in the same directions. Design work was originally by Georgia K.M. Tobin, and the final version assembled by Norman E. Powroz. | |
Achim Blumensath |
Designer of MnSymbols, a free math symbol font (in metafont format) designed to be used in conjunction with Adobe Minion. Since 2005 also available in type 1 format: MnSymbol-Bold10, MnSymbol-Bold12, MnSymbol-Bold5, MnSymbol-Bold6, MnSymbol-Bold7, MnSymbol-Bold8, MnSymbol-Bold9, MnSymbol10, MnSymbol12, MnSymbol5, MnSymbol6, MnSymbol7, MnSymbol8, MnSymbol9. |
Polish graphic artist and a typographer who designed fonts in the 1920s and 1930s that were widely used by Polish printing houses until the 1960s. His main type family was digitally recreated by Bogusaw Jackowski, Janusz M. Nowacki and Piotr Strzelczyk (JNS TEAM) in 2000 under the name Antykwa Pó&lslash;tawskiego starting mainly from MetaPost. | |
Virtual fonts by Lars Engebretsen to make CM act like T1 encoded fonts. AE stands for "almost European". | |
Written in PERL. Dead link. | |
Akkadian
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John Heise's page on Akkadian. He created the cfi family of cuneiform metafonts, with signs given in New Assyrian notation. |
Allrunes
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Carl-Gustav Werner's metafont code for runes (2001) of all kinds, Scandinavian, Continental, Gothic, Anglo-Frisian, Normal, Short-Twig, Staveless, Medieval. Carl-Gustav asked me to withhold his email address. |
The AMS in Providence, RI, offers the Computer Modern and AMS fonts in type 1 and metafont formats. Free, and for mathematical symbols, the best anywhere. Contact: Tom Kacvinsky. AMS Fonts. | |
AMS Euler, AMS Cyrillic, AMS Computer Modern, AMS extra math symbols (msam, msbm). In metafont format, some in type 1. AMS Euler -- a calligraphic font, designed by Herman Zapf for the AMS. It is designed for mathematical use, not as a text face. The fonts are Fraktur, Script, Cursive (an upright italic), Math extension. | |
Curves in metapost. By Andreas Scherer. | |
From the University of Poitiers, France, Anthony Phan's math symbol package (in metafont) is called mathabx (2002). It extends the Computer Modern mathematical symbol set. Other series by him, all in metafont: Mbb (2000, blackboard outline), Mcalligra (2001), Mxy (2002), Mgrey (2000). | |
APL
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Aarno Hohti's free metafont for APL. Plus many files for TEX users who want to set APL code nicely. |
ArabTex
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If you use LaTeX and want the top of the line in Arabic fonts (and free too!), get the metafont that comes with ArabTex: From the University of Stuttgart, Professor Klaus Lagally's ArabTeX is a LaTeX extension for high-quality arabic writing. It is free. CTAN archive. |
archaic
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Peter R. Wilson's metafont code (2000-2005) for many archaic languages: Proto-Semitic (16bc), Phoenician (10bc), Greek (6bc), Greek (4bc), Etruscan (8bc), Futharc (Anglo-Saxon, 6ad), Hieroglyphics (30bc: the hieroglf provides a Metafont version of about 80 Egyptian hieroglyphs from Serge Rosmorduc's comprehensive hieroglyph package, see here for a type 1 version called Archaic-Poor-Mans-Hieroglyphs (2005)), Cypriot (9bc). Peter also developed metafont fonts for bookhands. See here for the type 1 fonts Archaic-OandS (2005) and Archaic-OandS-Italic (2005). Here we find type 1 versions called Square-Capitals (2005) and Square-Capitals-Bold (2005). He also made the type 1 faces Archaic-Etruscan (2005), Archaic-Runic (2005) and Archaic-ProtoSemitic (2005). Further packages of type 1 and metafont fonts: Archaic-Aramaic (2005), Archaic-Linear-B (2005: a syllabary used in the Bronze Age (15bc) for writing Mycenaean Greek), Archaic-Nabatean (2005: the Nabatean script used in the Middle East between the fourth centuries BC and AD), Archaic-Old-Persian (2005: the Old Persian Cuneiform script in use between about 500 to 350 BC.), Archaic-Ugaritic-Cuneiform (2005: the Ugaritic Cuniform script in use about 1300 BC), Archaic-Cypriot (1999-2005). |
Gutenberg archives on metapost and metafont. | |
Free package developed by Serguei Dachian in metafont. He quotes: "These fonts were converted from the TrueType font family "ArTarumianTimes" made by Ruben Hakobian (Tarumian). We would like to thank him for giving us the permission to use his fonts." V. Hakobian. Other fonts (ars series) were developed based on Raffi Kojian's Sassoun family (1994). | |
Muhammad Masroor Ali's Bengali metafont. | |
ascii metafont
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Metafont created by R. Ramasubramanian, R. W. D. Nickalls and M. A. Reed, and based on IBM's Courier. |
AstroSym
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Peter Schmitt (Institut für Mathematik, Universität Wien) is the designer of the metafont AstroSym between 1992 and 2002. |
Free software by Basyl K. Malyshev: BaKoMa TeX is a complete TeX system for Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT/2000. It supports type 1, type 3, truetype, OpenType, and TeX PK formats, and enables PostScript in TeX. The system includes about *1500* typefaces in PostScript Type 1 and Type 3 font format including the following fonts: CM (including LaTeX and Logo fonts + vf for T1 with CX, AMS Fonts (Euler, Math Symbols), EC/TC, LH (T2A), Concrete (Math, ECC), Malvern, CMCyr + vf for T2A/LCY, Scripting fonts, CMPica, Punk, Stmaryrd, Wasy, Rsfs, YHMath, BlackBoard (bbm, doublestroke), Lams, Astro Symbols (cmastro, astrosym, moonphase), Barcodes (barcodes, wlean, wlc*), Logical (loggates, milstd), timing, MusiXTeX, Chess/CChess, Go, Backgammon, Dingbats/NiceFrame. PDF output supported. Direct access to the fonts. | |
Bangtex
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Bangtex is a package for typesetting documents in Bangla and Assamese using the Tex/Latex systems, developed by Calcutta-based Palash Baran Pal, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Calcutta. It includes a metafont family. See also here. Designer of the free Unicode-based Bengali font Akaash (2003), which can be found here. The latter font is part of a free Bengali font effort by the FreeFonts Project. Akaash is co-produced by Sayamindu Dasgupta. |
Bashkirian letters on top of the wncyr (Cyrillic metafont from Washington University), developed by Joerg Knappen. These letters are also sufficent for the writing of mongolian in cyrillic. | |
bbding
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The dingbat metafont BBDing (1999) was originally published by Karel Horak and later modified by Peter Møller Neergaard. |
bbm
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bbm is a serifed blackboard bold math symbol (meta)font by Gilles F. Robert from Ecole Normale Supérieure in Lyon. See also here. |
bbold is a blackboard bold math symbol font written in metafont by Alan Jeffrey in 1994. | |
BDFCHESS is a package of additional macros to CHESS.STY 1.2, writen by Piet Tutelaers, for correspondence chess players. To be used with Piet Tutelaers' metafont chess fonts. | |
Math symbol metafont. | |
Blackboard Bold | For blackboard bold (or "doublestroke") mathematical symbols in TEX, you have six options:
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A free blackletter metafont dating from 1991. | |
Peter R. Wilson's metafont code (2000-2001) for a series of METAFONT fonts and LaTeX packages for typesetting with the manuscript book-hands that were used during the period from the first century until the invention of printing. Included are:
Email to peter.r.wilson@boeing.co | |
Bookhands
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Email to peter.r.wilson@boeing.co |
Braille metafont. | |
Designer of a metafont family of Greek fonts based on Knuth's Greek characters in the CM fonts. Kelly's fonts come in roman, bold, italic, and typewritter typefaces, but they lack accents and breathing marks, so they are not suitable for use with ancient Greek text. | |
Byzantine Music Fonts
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The Byzantine Music Fonts (2005) were designed by Ioannis A. Vamvakas. Aesthetic help came from Panagiotis Kotopoulis. The metafont contains the Jesus Christ symbol, Greek Capital Letters, and music symbols. Byzantine music is the official ecclesiastical music used by the Greek Orthodox Church. Alternate URL. |
Calligraphic metafont. No further information. | |
calsymbols is a metafont for astronomical symbols, made by Lars Alexandersson, based on work by Eric A. Slutz. | |
Capital Baseball
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Baseball capitals: free metafont "capbas" by Phons Bloemen from the Eindhoven University of Technology. Now included in the package are also 7-segment, 14-segment, Simple, matrix fonts like Flyspec and Neckerspoel. Lots of interesting tools as well. Magnificent package, really. |
Cree/Inuktitut fonts in metafont format made by Ivan A Derzhanski (Department of Mathematical Linguistics, Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1999). | |
CASYL
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CASYLTEX (Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics TeX) enables you to typeset Cree/Inuktitut text. The package by Ivan A. Derzhanski developed in 1999 includes a metafont, casyl10, created by Ivan A. Derzhanski at the Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in 1999, and is based on James Evans' syllabic script. |
cb fonts
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From 1997-1999, Claudio Beccari created his cb fonts (metafont) for Greek by adapting Silvio Levy's Greek fonts. The cb-fonts are now the official fonts for the Greek option of the BABEL package. They are very complete and highly recommended. Type 1 versions here. See also here. Link died. In 2004, he added the CB Coptic family (metafont), which was based on files created in 1995 by Serge Rosmorduc. |
cb Greek metafont package by Apostolos Syropoulos. | |
Alan M Stanier's metafont for Cherokee based on the Cherokee script was designed in 1821 by Segwoya. | |
Chess metafonts
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Chess package for TEX with metafonts by Piet Tutelaers. See also here. Developed by Piet Tutelaers at Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands. |
Chinese chess font
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Chinese chess metafont by Jacques Richer. |
Chinese TEX package. Includes free TrueType fonts fxntufs, fxntukai, fxntuli, and utilities such as ttf2pk and ttf2tfm. | |
Designer of the metafont Universal in 1998. | |
cmbright
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Harald Harders used mftrace to turn Walter Schmidt's cmbright from Metafont into PostScript. The font names and the file names begin with 'hf' for 'harders font'. This has been done for not getting mixed up with the commercial cmbright fonts by MicroPress. |
Family of sans serif metafonts based on Donald Knuth's CM font. It is `lighter' and less obtrusive than CMSS. Together with CM Bright there comes a family of typewriter fonts, `CM Typwewriter Light', which look better in combination with CM Bright than the CMTT fonts would do. The whole package is by Walter Schmidt. | |
cmcyr
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Cyrillic (meta)fonts created by Nana Glonti and Alexander Samarin at the Institute for High Energy Physics, Protvino, USSR. In 1993 Basil K. Malyshev from IHEP released Type 1 outlines of these fonts under the title `Paradissa font collection'. |
Based on the Cyrillic (meta)fonts created by Nana Glonti and Alexander Samarin at the Institute for High Energy Physics, Protvino, USSR. cmcyralt is Russian fonts in alternative encoding: the first half of code table (0-127) coincides with standard ASCII, and cyrillic characters are located in second part of the table (128-255). Developed by Alexander Harin. | |
CM-LGC
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The CM-LGC package contains Type 1 fonts converted from METAFONT sources of the Computer Modern font families. The following encodings are supported: T1, T2A (Cyrillic), LGR (Greek) and TS1. This package includes also Unicode virtual fonts for use with Omega/Lambda. CM-LGC is the first Type 1 font package for LaTeX which supports all European scripts (LGC means `Latin, Greek and Cyrillic'). Done using Textrace by Alexej Kryukov. |
Computer Modern metafont with Old English letters. By Julian Bradfield. | |
CMPICA
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Don Hosek's metafont family developed in 1988 to create a face with roughly the same proportions as the Xerox Pica typeface. |
cmtiup
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Sergei V. Znamenskii's modification of the cmti and cmsl fonts, called cmtiup and cmslup, respectively: he made the italics stand up! Metafont code only. |
B. Jackowski's Polish versions of Computer Concrete (metafont, TFM, PL files). | |
Computer Duerer fonts
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The Computer Duere fonts are a metafont family developed by Alan Hoenig (City University of New Tork). Hoenig also developed Makor, a Hebrew TeX. The fonts in that package include OmegaSerifHebrew (like David), Ezra, Rashi and Hadassah. |
The Computer Modern fonts and the AMS fonts have been made available in "PS" Type 1 format by a Consortium including: AMS, BSR, Y&Y;, Elsevier, IBM, SIAM, and Springer. The CM font part of this distribution can be found on the AMS site and also on CTAN. | |
Computer Modern fonts
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Donald Knuth's Computer Modern family. A monstrous achievement, including numerous delicate metafont descriptions. Included in subdirectories are now three sets of type 1 PostScript fonts, Basil K. Malyshev's BaKoMa fonts, the American Mathematical Society (or Bluesky) versions, and the Paradissa font collection for Computer Modern, Euler and Computer Modern Cyrillic, also by Basil K. Malyshev. There are also PostScript type 3 versions of the Computer Modern fonts. Doug Henderson made some outline fonts (in metafont). |
CTAN mirror of PostScript versions of Knuth's Computer Modern PostScript Fonts, previously distributed by Blue Sky Research and Y&Y; Inc are now freely available for general use. This has been accomplished through the cooperation of a consortium of scientific publishers with Blue Sky Research and Y&Y.; Members of this consortium include: Elsevier Science, IBM Corporation, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), Springer-Verlag, and the American Mathematical Society (AMS). | |
TrueType versions of the Computer Modern fonts. Brought to you by Yaw-Jen Lin and Tzao-Lin Lee. Lin reports that he has written a free utility for converting metafont fonts into truetype fonts, but I could not locate that software anywhere. | |
TrueType versions of the Computer Modern fonts. Check also here. Contains the monospaced typewriter type cmtt. | |
Bitstream Charter fonts with added Computer Sanskrit encoding. PostScript and TrueType. | |
Concrete Math fonts
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Ulrik Vieth's alternative for Computer Modern. Concrete by itself may be used as a complete replacement for Computer Modern. Since Concrete is considerably darker than Computer Modern, this may be of particular interest for use in low-resolution printing or in applications such as posters or transparencies. Personally, I find this collection wonderful. Alternate URL. |
Metafont family. This font was designed for Donald Knuth's Concrete Mathematics book. It looks a little like a cross between American Typewriter and Computer Modern Roman. There are Roman and Italic faces. | |
Coptic metafonts. | |
Cryst
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Ulrich Mueller (Fachbereich Chemie, Universitaet Marburg) developed symbols for use in crystallography. His metafont called Cryst was made in 1999. |
The Comprehensive TeX Archive Network is the authoritative collection of materials related to the TeX typesetting system and Metafont. It has announcements, an archive, and an FTP download site. There are many subpages on fonts for TEX, including most metafonts ever created, as well as some type 1 and truetype font collections. See also here. | |
AT CTAN sites, one can find all software related to TeX and Metafont, including, of course, the source code of all fonts. | |
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From Essex University, Alan M. Stanier's metafont for Cypriot. | |
FTP source of code for using Cyrillic-T1 fonts in Latex, by Daniel Taupin. | |
From Essex University, Alan M. Stanier's metafont for stick figures dancing. | |
Daniel Taupin |
Daniel Taupin (1936-2003) held a degree of the ESPCI school and was a doctor in physics. He was a researcher in a solid-state physics lab at Orsay University (Physique des Solides, Univ. Paris-Sud). Obituary. Another obituary with details of his mountain climbing career and death in the mountains. He published ttfmf2t1, a free C program, to clean up the output of Oleg Motygin's ttf2mf program that converts ttf files installed (!!) in Windows to metafont format. Metafont sources for Garamond, Times, Arial, Book Antiqua and Bookman Oldstyle are also at this site. He also codeveloped OpusTeX (for music notation) with Andreas Egler and Ross Mitchell. He published Les polices TTF converties en Metafont and MusiXTeX: L'écriture de la musique polyphonique ou instrumentale avec TEX. Designer of the metafont fraktur font families CM Fraktur and DM Fraktur. CM Fraktur, or cmfrak, is based on Yannis Haralambous' font yfrak (1990). |
Darko Zubrinic from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing Av. Vukovar 39, Zagreb, Croatia, has created a set of TeX and METAFONT files called Croatian Glagolitic (1995-1996). It contains 367 symbols covering Croatian Glagolitic (round, angular, Baska Tablet, quickscript, about 60 ligatures, Baromic broken ligatures, calligraphic letters), Croatian Cyrillic, Stechak ornaments, and Croatian wattle patterns. See also here. The fonts are described in his paper "Croatian fonts", TUGboat, Vol. 17, 1996. This page also has links to other Glagolitic fonts. | |
hge is an Old English font derived from the Hershey fonts by Dave Kruger in 1991. Metafont format. | |
Sebastian Marius Kirsch made a set of font metric files and virtual fonts for using the dc fonts with oldstyle numerals. This font family is called dco fonts. It can only be used together with the standard dc fonts v1.3. | |
Designer of the metafont GenealogySymbols. See also here. | |
Collection of Devanagari BDF files for X-Windows, by Sandeep. Plus a few Devanagari truetype fonts. | |
Frans Velthuis (Groningen University) developed a Devanagari Metafont in 1991. Check also the CTAN archive. Later, Anshuman Pandey from the Washington University, Seattle, USA, took over the maintenance of font. Primoz Peterlin made type 1 outlines based on this. | |
Devanagari (type 1)
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These outline renderings (PostScript Type 1) of Frans Velthuis' Devanagari fonts (originally, dated 1990) for TeX were created by Primoz Peterlin. The original METAFONT sources were automatically converted to PFB using Peter Szabo's TeXtrace, and subsequently edited using George Williams' PfaEdit PostScript font editor by Anshuman Pandey (University of Washington). In 2003-2004, additional updates in the set of 22 Metafont files are due to Kevin Carmody (email: i@kevincarmody.com), who presently maintains the package. The font names: TeX-dvng10, TeX-dvng9, TeX-dvng8. These were later changed to VelthuisDevanagari8-Regular, VelthuisDevanagari9-Regular and VelthuisDevanagari10-Regular. |
Dice
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In 1998, Thomas A. Heim created a metafont called Dice with dice in 2d and 3d look. |
Dimitri Vulis's barcode font
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A free 3 of 9 barcode metafont designed by Dimitri Vulis in 1987. |
The creator of TEX and METAFONT and a million other things. Co-designer of the Computer Modern family. Professor Emeritus of The Art of Computer Programming at Stanford University. Bitstream write-up. Author in 1998 of Digital Typography (CSLI Publications). His METAFONT book is free. | |
In Stanford. Has the Computer Modern metafont family and the AMS fonts. | |
doublestroke
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"doublestroke" is Olaf Kummer's blackboard bold math symbol font in metafont format. Olaf Kummer is at the University of Hamburg. |
Designer of a mathematical symbol metafont called dbnsymb. Bar-Natan is Professor at the Department of Mathematics at the University of Toronto, and has included a Canadian flag symbol as well. He also has a free script that one can use to make xfig drawings into a metafont. | |
Zip file with German and Dutch ligatures such as fb, fk, ffb, ffk, fj, ffj, and so forth. Expert page by Gert-Jan C. Lokhorst. For the Computer Modern family. | |
dvi to pdf filter by Mark A. Wicks (Kettering University). | |
Jörg Knappen writes: there are now the stable ec fonts Version 1.0 available from the CTAN archives in directory tex-archive/fonts/jknappen/ec. The ec fonts support the complete LaTeX T1 encoding, as defined at the 1990 TUG conference hold at Cork/Ireland. They are intended to be as stable as the cm fonts are, i.e., there shall be no more changes to the tfm files. The ec fonts also contain a Text Companion Symbol font, called tc, featuring many usefull characters needed in typesetting, for example oldstyle digits, currency symbols (including the newly created Euro symbol), the permille sign, copyright, trade mark and servicemark as well as a copyleft sign, and many others. The upcoming release of LaTeX2e will support the ec fonts. The dc fonts, which were termed as preliminary versions, will dissappear from the archives soon. It is suggested, that you replace them entirely by the ec fonts. Let me thank to all the people who have contributed to the success of the ec font project. They are too numerous to mention all of them, but some of them should have a place here: Donald E. Knuth and Richard Southall for designing and coding the cm fonts, which are the base of the ec fonts; Barbara Beeton, Michael Ferguson, and Jan-Michael Rynning for pushing the project into existence; Norbert Schwarz for the first two releases of the dc fonts; Yannis Haralambous for numerous contributions to the METAFONT code; Boguslaw Jackowsky and Marek Rycko for designing and programming the polish letters; Andreas Schwab for finding and fixing some very bad bugs; Daniel Taupin and Denis Roegel for fine-tuning of the accented letters needed in french. The remaining errors and bugs in the distribution are all mine, no one of the persons credited above and the other unnamed contributors should be blamed for them. | |
This is a set of font metric files and virtual fonts for using the ec fonts with oldstyle numerals in TeX. This metafont family is called eco fonts. It can only be used together with the standard ec fonts. Developed by Sebastian Marius Kirsch. | |
Hieroglyphic metafont and related files. Alternate URL. Yet another URL. | |
Ivan A Derzhanski's metafont family for Gaelic. | |
Located at the University of Paris, Emmanuel Beffara designed the French Cursive font, a cursive hand-writing font family in the style of the French academic running-hand. It comes in Metafont format. Experimental type 1 versions are available too: TeX-fcbx10, TeX-fcc10, TeX-fcf10, TeX-fcr10. See also here (last updated in 2004). | |
engwar
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Metafont by Michael Urban. |
Euro Symbol Package for LaTeX by Henrik Theiling
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Henrik Theilling's Euro symbol package in metafont, created according to the precise specifications. See also here. Version 1.3 and up contain PostScript fonts as well: TeX-feybl10, TeX-feybo10, TeX-feybr10, TeX-feyml10, TeX-feymo10, TeX-feymr10. The type 1 fonts were created by Thomas Schröder. |
Euro-CE
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Euro and CE symbol fonts made by Harold W. de Wijn in metafont format in 1998 (version 3.0 from 2002). de Wijn works in Utrecht University, The Netherlands. |
Joerg Knappen and Norbert Schwarz developed this metafont family. | |
ECC: metafont family developed by Walter Schmidt in Erlangen. "`European Concrete' is an implementation of Donald Knuth's Comcrete fonts, providing T1 text fonts and TS1 text companion fonts." | |
Jörg Knappen's fc fonts for African languages. In metafont. The following languages are supported: Akan, Bamileke, Basa (Kru), Bemba, Ciokwe, Dinka, Dholuo (Luo), Efik, Ewe-Fon, Fulani (Fulful), G\~a, Gbaya, Hausa, Igbo, Kanuri, Kikuyu, Kikongo, Kpelle, Krio, Luba, Mandekan (Bambara), Mende, More, Ngala, Nyanja, Oromo, Rundi, Kinya Rwanda, Sango, Serer, Shona, Somali, Songhai, Sotho (two different writing systems), Suaheli, Tiv, Yao, Yoruba, Xhosa and Zulu. Plus Maltese and Sami. Jörg Knappen works at the University of Mainz in Germany. | |
File names for PostScript fonts in TEX. | |
Directory with most known font utilities related to metafont and either truetype or type 1. | |
Commercial type 1 and type 3 fonts, converted from metafont by Basil K. Malyshev. The package includes Blackboard (BBM, doublestroke), Calligraphic Fonts (Calligra, Script, Vacal, La, twcal, suetterlin), Math Fonts (StMaryrd, Wasy, YHMath, RSFS), Astro Symbols (cmastro, astrosym, moonphase), Barcodes (barcodes, wlean, wlc*), Logical diagrams fonts (loggates, milstd), CMPica, Punk, CBGreek, Concrete fonts in ATM Compatible Type 1 font format (The Concrete Roman fonts were designed by D. Knuth), Concrete Math fonts designed by Ulrik Vieth, European Concrete fonts designed by Walter Schmidt, Malvern fonts in ATM Compatible Type 1 font format. | |
Michal Kvasnihka's Czech site with Czech versions of the Computer Modern fonts, CS Concrete, and a handwriting font called Slabikar. | |
Pick up Sirlin (3 Tibetan metafonts), STEDT (Mac font), Tibkey, U-Chan, and Tibetan Modern A (Windows). | |
fontsmpl
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Alan Jeffrey's LaTeX program for printing a font sample. |
Metafont code by Yannis Haralambous for various Fraktur and Gothic fonts: yfrak, yswab, yinit and ygoth. Type 1 versions generated by Torsten Bronger. | |
Designer of the metafont chess font Chess. | |
genmkttf |
Daniel Taupin from the Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, F-91405 Orsay, France, offers open source code for creating PK, GF and TFM files from TTF files. |
Designer with metafont of various symmetric dingbats. Postscript source codes also available. | |
The Glonti font package consists of virtual fonts that are composed from CM and CMCYR fonts. The package is intended primarily for plain TeX based formats that use Knuths original font selection, font naming, and font coding schemes. Use them with `cyrplain' format found in `T2' package. Developed in 2001-2002 by Iliya Peregoudov. | |
Description of many type 1 and metafont font manipulation tools, by Karl Berry and Kathryn A. Hargreaves. | |
Gothic and ornamental initial (meta)fonts by Yannis Haralambous: yfrak, ygoth, yinit, yswab, sueterlin. | |
Greek fonts in one zip file. | |
Yannis Haralambous's Greek metafont package. | |
Greek (Silvio Levy)
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Silvio Levy's Greek metafont package based on Computer Modern. |
Greek uncial metafont. | |
greektex by Yiannis N. Moschovakis (Dept of Mathematics, UCLA) and George Spiliotis is also based on Silvio Levy's Greek metafonts and Donald Knuth's Computer Modern. | |
K. J. Dryllerakis's GreeKTeX package including several Greek metafonts. | |
Greenpoint
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Markus Triska's logo of "Der Gruene Punkt" ("The Green Point"), made in metafont in 2001. |
Gurmukhi for TeX software, including metafont sources. All developed by Amarjit Singh in 1995. | |
GUST is the Polish TEX Users Group. This document describes, in Polish, the many directories and files here. Notable are the type 1 fonts Antykwa Torunska and seria PL by J.M. Nowacki, Quasi-Palladio IV'98 and QuasiTimes IV'98 by B. Jackowski. There are also many metafonts. Maintained by Staszek Wawrykiewicz. | |
Hands
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Hands is a dingbat font in metafont format designed by Georgia K.M. Tobin and Norman E. Powroz. |
Designer of the metafont Go, for the game of Go. | |
Puzzles and geometrical constructions in metapost. | |
CTAN archives have Hebrew metafonts for DeadSea, OldJaffa, Jerusalem, and TelAviv fonts. Also, Redis (by Jacques J. Goldberg of the Technion, Haifa), hclassic, hcaption (by Joel M. Hoffman), ShalomScript10, ShalomStick10, ShalomOldStyle10 (all shalom fonts by by Jonathan Brecher), Carmel (crml10, by Samy Zafrany of the Technion, Haifa), and three Frank Ruehl fonts. | |
Hebrew metafont sources. Also some type 1 fonts for Hebrew, and truetype fonts for PC. | |
A Hebrew LaTeX package. It contains the following fonts:
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Metafont versions of the Hershey font family. | |
Hong Feng |
Researcher from CTUG, China. At TUG 2005 he explains howwavelets can be used in conjunction with Metafont/Metapost to design Chinese fonts. |
Ibycus
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Pierre A. MacKay (Dept of Classics, University of Washington) has a Greek Latex package, which has metafonts that extend the Greek metafonts by Silvio Levy. It features the necessary breathing marks and accents for use with ancient Greek text. It also includes the digamma character and the numerals qoppa and sampi (the numerals appear in lowercase type only). Ibycus4 is a Greek typeface, based on Silvio Levy's realization of a classic Didot cut of Greek type from around 1800. Since 2004, this package includes type 1 fonts as well. The project is supported by Walter Schmidt and Harald Harders (who did some metafont to type 1 conversions). |
icelandic
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Joergen Pind's metafont sources for Icelandic. Plus files to use in TeX. From the Institute of Lexicography, University of Iceland, Reykjavik. |
IFSYM
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Metafont dingbats by Ingo Klöckl (1999-2000). It has clocks, weather symbols, dice, prisoner counts, ski slope signs, mountaineering symbols, map symbols, geometric symbols. |
igo
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Go game typesetting facilities, including Go fonts in metafont format, based on Hanna Kolodziejska's 1991 fonts. Slightly altered and finished in 2003 by �tienne Dupuis. |
itrans
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itrans is Avinash Chopde's freeware Indian Language Transliteration package. It includes a lot of free fonts: the Devnac PostScript Type III Font, the ItxGuj PostScript Type 1 and TrueType Gujarati (Donated by Shrikrishna Patil to ITRANS), the ItxBeng PostScript Type 1 and TrueType Bengali (Donated by Shrikrishna Patil to ITRANS), the Bengali - bwti metafont package, by Abhijit Das, Romanized Sanskrit (CSUtopia, type 1), the Washington Indic Roman TrueType fonts, the Washington Tamil metafont, the Kannada metafont, Xdvng (from the jtrans package, TrueType and type 1), Pun (a PostScript punjabi font), Frans Velthuis's Devnag Metafont, for Devanagari v1.6 (1998). Alternate site. At one point in the early 1990s, Chopde was assiociated with Avid Technology, Inc., Tewksbury, Mass. |
Cyrillic metafont. | |
Professor at the Technion (Haifa) who made the metafont family Redis. | |
Geometrical constructions and metapost. In French, by Jean-Michel Sarlat. | |
Oriya metafont by Jeroen Hellingman (1998). From the same source, Malayalam PostScript and TrueType fonts, and Tamazight (Berber) PostScript and TrueType fonts. He also created Malayalam PostScript and TrueType fonts, a Unicode Shapes font (TeX, PostScript, TrueType), and Tamazight (Berber) PostScript and TrueType fonts. Home page. | |
Designer of the metafont Cun (runes, cuneiform). | |
Creator of the metafonts hclassic and hcaption. | |
Designer of Sertofont, a metafont for Syriac created in 2001. | |
Designer of the orthographic/calligraphic font La. | |
Also, the mauals of metapost, "A MetaFont like system with PostScript output" (article by John Hobby), A user's manual, and "Drawing graphs with MetaPost (John Hobby)". | |
In 1990, Jonathan Brecher (Lexington, MA) made the freeware metafonts ShalomOldStyle, ShalomScript and ShalomStick, available at GIMP ort here in type 1 format. They are also on various archives in truetype format. | |
Designer (b. Fort Lauderdale, FL, 1965) of a few metafonts such as old uncial and cirth (Tolkien runes), to be found here, and Celtic Knotwork Font. Now software engineer for IBM/Lotus in Ireland. | |
Prolific German metatype designer, who works at the University of Mainz in Germany. He is responsible for the massive European Computer Modern fonts (EC fonts), and the fc fonts for African languages (metafont only). He also designed a Bashkirian metafont. | |
KALE: KAnnada Lipi Enthusiasists (sic). This group is interested in TEX implementations for Kannada. | |
"KALE (KAnnada Lipi Enthusiasists) is a group of Kannada Font Enthusiasists, whose principal aim at this point of time is to realize a Kannada TeX so as to be able to typeset documents written in Kannada." KanTex was developed by G. S. Jagadeesh and Venkatesh P. Gopinath, an EECS professor at Berkeley. It comes with a Metafont family. | |
Karel Piska works at the Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences, Prague, and specializes in Neo-Assyrian Cuneiform fonts covering also Akkasdian, Ugaritic and Old persian. There, he designed these fonts from 1999-2003 (free downloads): NAOldPersianAcadBFType1, NAOldPersianAcademicType1, NAOldPersianClassicType1, NAUgariticAcadBFType1, NAUgariticAcademicType1, NAUgariticClassicType1, NeoAssyrianAcadBFType1a, NeoAssyrianAcadBFType1b, NeoAssyrianAcadBFType1c, NeoAssyrianAcademicType1a, NeoAssyrianAcademicType1b, NeoAssyrianAcademicType1c, NeoAssyrianClassicType1a, NeoAssyrianClassicType1b, NeoAssyrianClassicType1c. Free metafonts of his include Syllabary A No. 56A (additional cuneiform signs), The page also has a rare metafont triple called "cunmfa", "cunmfb" and "cummfc" by Jo Grant (1992). He wrote "Fonts for Neo-Assysian Cuneiform," Proceedings of the EuroTeX Conference, Heidelberg, Germany, September 20-24, 1999, Günter Partosch andi Gerhard Wilhelms eds, Giessen, Augsburg, 1999, pp. 142-154. At TUG 2005 he speaks on the conversion of Metafont fonts to outline fonts using Metapost. After theoretical conversion, the FontForge font editor is used for removing overlap, simplification, rounding to integer, autohinting, generating outline fonts, and necessary manual modifications. | |
Travel dingbats in metafont format. No info on the author. | |
KD Greek fonts
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The KD Greek metafont family was developed by Sylvio Levi and Yiannis Haralambous and adapted later by K. J. Dryllerakis (Imperial College London). |
Kerkis
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Mathematics and Greek font family being developed by Antonis Tsolomitis from the Department of Mathematics at the University of the Aegean. Includes metafont, and type 1. Each of the fonts in the Kerkis family, an extension of the Bookman Oldstyle family, is loaded with Latin and Greek glyphs---absolutely wonderful! See also here. The fonts: Kerkis, Kerkisb, Kerkisbi, Kerkisbui, Kerkisc, Kerkisi, Kerkissb, Kerkissbi, Kerkissc, Ktsy, Ktsyn. |
KIX
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Rick van Rein developed a metafont for barcodes for Dutch postal codes (KIX barcode fonts: KIX stands for KlantIndeX). |
Klinz
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Metafont for Klingon, by Khoros sutai-Makpai, aka Karl Günter Wünsch. |
From CTAN site in Germany. | |
Lars explains: "This is a set of virtual fonts building, from the standard CM fonts, a set of almost T1 encoded fonts." | |
Letters for kids when they learn to write. Metafont format. | |
Denis Roegel's grand site about fonts and LaTex. This will take months to fully explore and absorb. If you visit only one TEX site in your life, this must be the one. Dead link. | |
General links on typography and fonts, compiled by Denis Roegel (with earlier contributions by Karl Tombre who is no longer involved). Very, very useful. This page contains, among other things:
Email to Denis.Roegel@loria.fr | |
Laurie Field |
In 2001, Laurie Field developed a Greek metafont, LFB as a companion for Computer Modern. |
Package written in Metafont by A.Berdnikov, A.Khodulev and O.Lapko. Based on Computer Modern and a few other metfaont sources, this package covers Cyrillic. | |
Lists all sources for metafont code for most languages in the world. Liam Quin works for SoftQuad Inc in Toronto. | |
Lists all sources for metafont code for most languages in the world. Liam Quin works for SoftQuad Inc in Toronto. Site at the University of Utrechts's CS Department. | |
Lists all sources for metafont code for most languages in the world. Liam Quin works for SoftQuad Inc in Toronto. | |
Bitmap to PostScript or Metafont filter for X-windows and UNIX set-ups. Free, but a fair amount of programming savvy is needed. | |
Linear Logic Fonts |
Patrick Lincoln's page has metafont code for the par symbol. Web page gone. |
Makefont is a free Perl script by Dror Bar-Natan (University of Toronto) for making figures drawn by xfig (a free Unix utility) into a metafont. | |
Hebrew TeX package by Alan Hoenig. Fonts included are OmegaSerifHebrew (like David), Ezra, Rashi and Hadassah. | |
Malvern
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A sans-serif (meta)font by P. Damian Cugley at Oxford, 1991-1994. This family contains a sans-serif Greek alphabet, using conventions based on Levy's original Greek fonts and Dryllerakis' GreekTeX. Type 1 and truetype versions at uncifonts. |
Study and discussion group started members such as Barbara Beeton, AMS (WG Chair), Thierry Bouche, David Carlisle, LaTeX3 Project, Matthias Clasen, Michael Downes, AMS, Robin Fairbairns, Berthold Horn, Y&Y; Inc., Alan Jeffrey, LaTeX3 Project, Jörg Knappen, Frank Mittelbach, LaTeX3 Project, Chris Rowley, LaTeX3 Project, Ulrik Vieth, and Justin Ziegler. Mailing list. Mainly TEX-based. | |
Melanos
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A simple mono-width sans serif font family for Greek developed by James K. Tauber. |
Richard Kinch's utility that converts overlapping Metafont shapes to Type 1 outlines. It is an option to the retail TrueTeX package. | |
Nelson Beebe's web page on Metafont. | |
Jump page for Metafont. | |
PS, metafont and PK images of several Hangul typefaces. | |
Metafont software guide. | |
Metafont dingbats
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Dingbat characters in metafont format by Doug Henderson. A second dingbat metafont (ark10) is due to Scott Kim, Arthur M. Keller and N.N. Billawala. Scott Pakin wrote the LATEX interface. |
Fonts from CTAN site (FTP) in Germany. | |
Marcus J. Ertl's metafont gallery. | |
If you want to join, just mail listserv@ens.fr with empty subject field, the message being the single line: sub METAFONT firstname lastname. Contribute article via metafont@ens.fr. | |
Metafont Quellen
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Jobst-Hartmut Lueddecke's page has metafont sources for Sutterlin (by B. Ludewig), old Irish Uncial (by Jo Jaquinta), Italic (Cancellaresca corsiva) of Ludovico degli Arrighi, called Vicentino (Italy, early 16. century) by Willibald Kraml, yfrak, yinit, ygoth, yswab and cmfrak, Fraktur fonts by Yannis Haralambous. Also, the rune fonts bard (Celtic Bard Runes by Jobst-Hartmut Lueddecke), futhark (by Micaela Pantke and Sigrid Juckel), srune (by Jobst-Hartmut Lueddecke), the fantasy fonts cirth (dwarven runes created by J.R.R.Tolkien, by Jo Jaquinta), engwar (by Michael Urban), goblin (by Alan M. Stanier), tengwar (elven runes created by J.R.R.Tolkien, by Michael Urban), Jörg Knappen's EC fonts, hksym (a dingbat font by Hartmut Kennhöfer and Jobst-Hartmut Lueddecke), moonphases (dingbats by Stanislav Brabec, and wasy (dingbats by Roland Waldi). |
Daniel Taupin (Université Paris-Sud) used Olyg Motygin's ttf2mf program, and lots of manual adjustments and additions to generate metafont versions of the usual Times, Arial, Arial Narrow, Book Antiqua, Bookman Old Style, Courier, Garamond, Helvetica and Times New Roman fonts, starting from truetype fonts. FTP site. | |
Hans Hagen's Metafun Manual. | |
(at CTAN site for FTP in Germany) Metapost is John Hobby's metafont-like language for generating PostScript. Could be useful for defining the shapes of characters. | |
MetaPost software guide. | |
From its developer, Serge Vakulenko: "Metatype is a set of utilities and scripts for creating TrueType fonts using Metafont language. It also includes two font families, named TeX and TeX Math, based on the D. Knuth's Computer Modern fonts, but extended with Greek, Cyrillic and other characters. Metatype and TeX fonts can be used under the GPL license." The TeX family consists of TeXBold, TeXBoldItalic, TeXItalic, TeXMono, TeXMonoItalic, TeXMath, TeXMathBold, TeXMathBoldItalic, TeXMathItalic, TeXNarrow, TeX, TeXSans, TeXSansBold, TeXSansBoldItalic, TeXSansItalic, TeXWide. It comes in TTF and BDF formats. Free software in pre-alpha development, for Windows and X11/UNIX/Linux. The code is in C and Python. | |
MetyaType1 is a free tool for creating Type 1 fonts using MetaPost. By the "JNS team" in Poland, which includes Boguslaw Jackowski. It requires a metapost description of the font to start with. Alternate URL. | |
Metafont to EPS filter written by B. Jackowski, P. Pianowski, M. Ry\'cko. | |
Pascal program by Shimon Yanai (IBM Science and Technology Center, Technion City) and Daniel M. Berry (Computer Science, Technion, Haifa)dating from 1993 for converting a metafont into a type 1 font. | |
Scott Pakin's free program for converting metafont files to type 1 fonts. From the author: "mf2pt1 facilitates producing PostScript Type 1 fonts from a Metafont source file. It is not, as the name may imply, an automatic converter of arbitrary Metafont fonts to Type 1 format. mf2pt1 imposes a number of restrictions on the Metafont input. If these restrictions are met, mf2pt1 will produce valid Type 1 output. (Actually, it produces "disassembled" Type 1; the t1asm program from the t1utils suite will convert this to a true Type 1 font.)" | |
Apostolos Syropoulos's Perl script that generates a PostScript Type 3 font that corresponds to a METAFONT font description. In order to achieve its goal the program utilizes another program: mfplain (METAPOST with the mfplain base preloaded). The author acknowledges the help of John Hobby (the creator of METAPOST) and Yotam Medini. | |
Directory with many papers and info on Metafont. | |
A free program with macros to help draw metafont figures. Its history: MFpic was initiated by Tom Leathrum in 1992. At some point in version 0.2.x most of the development passed to Geoffrey Tobin. In 1996, when the (unreleased) version was at 0.2.14, Dan Luecking began trying to transform mfpic's Metafont code into MetaPost code, and then folding MetaPost support into mfpic.tex. With Geoffrey Tobin's help, and that of a small group of mfpic aficionados on the Net, Luecking published mfpic v. 0.5. Dan Luecking is at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Arkansas. | |
mftrace is a small Python program that lets you trace a metafont into a PFA or PFB font (A PostScript Type1 Scalable Font) or TTF (TrueType) font. It is licensed under the GNU GPL. All done by Han-Wen Nienhuys. Requires autotrace and pfaedit (now FontForge). Similar to metatype, which only makes truetype though. | |
Bernard Desgraupes' free metafont utilities for the Mac. These include metapostMode and metafontMode for use with the Alpha text editor on the Mac. Compatible with Tom Kiffe's CMacTex, and Andrew Trevorrow's OzMetafont. He is also the author of "Metafont - guide pratique", Editions: Vuibert, Paris, 1999. | |
Designer of the metafont Futhorc (runes). | |
Miklos Csuros' page of links related to TeX. | |
milstd
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Metafont by Rick Simpson containing special characters for use in logic diagrams. |
Czech site with several free fonts developed in a mathematically precise manner. First, we have a Unicode-compliant serifed typeface Mides (2004), which has well over a thousand glyphs and fills most of the early part of the Unicode table. Tapir (a sans family with simple geometric shapes and lines of constant thickness comes in metafont and type 1), Faldix, Fixka (handprinting style glyphs), FixkaBold, FixkaBoldItalic, FixkaItalic, Tapir, TriGande (a sans family), TriGandeB lunet, TriGandeBlunetBold, TriGandeBlunetBoldItalic, TriGandeBlunetItalic, TriGandeBold, T riGandeBoldItalic, TriGandeItalic, Zabyris, ZabyrisBold, Bobdel. Most faces come in type 1 and metafont versions. Metafont-only typefaces include Bobdel, Midings and Mishapes. Alternate URL for Tapir. I can't figure out who designed these typefaces. | |
Czech designer of Tapir (2004) in metafont and type 1 format: a simple geometrical font mostly created from line and circular segments with constant thickness, with a character set that contains all chars in the range 0--127 and all accented characters used in the Czech language. Other faces include Mides, TriGande, Zabyris (handwriting), Fixka, Bobdel, Midings and Mishapes. With exception of Mides, which is a truetype font, the fonts are coded using metafont. | |
The Mojikyo Institute is in Yokohama, Japan. Its goal is to produce free universal tools for Japanese, Chinese and Korean word processing and typesetting. Several tens of complete fonts are already finished, in all possible font formats (truetype, type 1, metafont). "Mojikyo is the newest kind of software for Chinese Character word-processing. More than 80,000 character fonts have been built in Mojikyo. So, everyone in the world can use any font of Mojikyo, free of charge. Moreover, if you want to use Chinese Character which cannot be found in Mojikyo Internet fonts, you can ask us to make new character provided that you inform us the source(s) of the character. We make them, and put them on our Home Page free of charge for public use." Truetype fonts for Chinese and Japanese characters. Mojikyo Windows truetype fonts. TEX-specific download page. More on this truetype set of fonts named Mojikyo-M101, Mojikyo-M102, Mojikyo-M103, Mojikyo-M104, Mojikyo-M105, Mojikyo-M106, Mojikyo-M107, Mojikyo-M108, Mojikyo-M109, Mojikyo-M110, Mojikyo-M111, Mojikyo-M112, Mojikyo-M113, Mojikyo-M114, Mojikyo-M115, Mojikyo-M116, Mojikyo-M117, Mojikyo-M118, Mojikyo-M119, Mojikyo-M120 and Mojikyo-M121 here. | |
Oliver Corff's Latex and metafont software for Mongolian. | |
moonphase metafont
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Moonphases in metafont format, by Stanislav Brabec from Czechia. |
Udo Heyl's metafont package for Morse (1998). | |
Designer of the metafonts Hand Arrow Mark and Return Mark. | |
Math symbol font in type 1 format, generated from old metafont code. By Berthold K.P. Horn. | |
Musixtex
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Music macros and fonts for use in TeX. These fonts were originally created in Metafont format, as a successor of the Musictex package. All the work was done by Daniel Taupin. The Musixtex package is due to Dr. Daniel Taupin, Ross Mitchell and Andreas Egler. The 71 type 1 fonts were generated and hand-tuned by Takanori Uchiyama: TeXMUSIX11-Regular, TeXMUSIX13-Regular, TeXMUSIX16-Regular, TeXMUSIX20-Regular, TeXMUSIX24-Regular, TeXMUSIX29-Regular, TeXMUSIXSPS-Regular, TeXMUSIXSPX-Regular, TeXXGREG11-Regular, TeXXGREG13-Regular, TeXXGREG16-Regular, TeXXGREG20-Regular, TeXXGREG24-Regular, TeXXGREG29-Regular, TeXXSLD11-Regular, TeXXSLD11D-Regular, TeXXSLD13-Regular, TeXXSLD13D-Regular, TeXXSLD16-Regular, TeXXSLD16D-Regular, TeXXSLD20-Regular, TeXXSLD20D-Regular, TeXXSLD24-Regular, TeXXSLD24D-Regular, TeXXSLD29-Regular, TeXXSLD29D-Regular, TeXXSLDD20-Regular, TeXXSLDU20-Regular, TeXXSLHD11-Regular, TeXXSLHD11D-Regular, TeXXSLHD13-Regular, TeXXSLHD13D-Regular, TeXXSLHD16-Regular, TeXXSLHD16D-Regular, TeXXSLHD20-Regular, TeXXSLHD20D-Regular, TeXXSLHD24-Regular, TeXXSLHD24D-Regular, TeXXSLHD29-Regular, TeXXSLHD29D-Regular, TeXXSLHU11-Regular, TeXXSLHU11D-Regular, TeXXSLHU13-Regular, TeXXSLHU13D-Regular, TeXXSLHU16-Regular, TeXXSLHU16D-Regular, TeXXSLHU20-Regular, TeXXSLHU20D-Regular, TeXXSLHU24-Regular, TeXXSLHU24D-Regular, TeXXSLHU29-Regular, TeXXSLHU29D-Regular, TeXXSLHZ20-Regular, TeXXSLHZ20D-Regular, TeXXSLU11-Regular, TeXXSLU11D-Regular, TeXXSLU13-Regular, TeXXSLU13D-Regular, TeXXSLU16-Regular, TeXXSLU16D-Regular, TeXXSLU20-Regular, TeXXSLU20D-Regular, TeXXSLU24-Regular, TeXXSLU24D-Regular, TeXXSLU29-Regular, TeXXSLU29D-Regular, TeXXSLUD20-Regular, TeXXSLUP20-Regular, TeXXSLZ20-Regular, TeXXSLZ20D-Regular, TeXXTIE20-Regular. |
Metafont code by Berlin-based Johannes Heinecke for Georgian. CTAN mirror. | |
Nelson Beebe's "Notes on fonts". Useful starting page of links. Has sdubpages on font names, Unicode, fonts in TEX. | |
A musical notation metafont for transcribing Hildegard von Bingen's music. | |
Codesigner with Georgia K.M. Tobin of the metafont Hands. | |
Astronomer and physicist at the University of Glasgow. Designer in 1991-2001 of the font Feyn (metafont), which can be used to produce relatively simple Feynman diagrams within equations in a LaTeX document. Easy downloads here. | |
OCR-A
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Metafont definition for the OCR-A Optical Character Recognition Font. By Richard B. Wales from UCLA's Computer Science Department. |
OCR-A (Lillqvist)
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OCR-A was coded in METAFONT84 by Tor Lillqvist, VTT/ATK (Technical Research Centre of Finland, Computing Services). |
OCR-B was developed by Adrian Frutiger. Norbert Schwarz (Rechenzentrum, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum) developed this metafont package. | |
Oesterreichische Schulschrift
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Oesterreichische Schulschrift: Austrian School Writing Letters developed in 1995 by Gerhard A. Bachmaier. In metafont format. |
From Essex University, Alan M. Stanier's metafont for Ogham, an alphabet found on a number of Irish and Pictish carvings dated from the 4th century AD. The characters touch or cross the edges of the stone. | |
Okuda
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Metafont for "Okuda" orthography of pIqaD (Klingon language) by Mark Shoulson, modified by Olaf Kummer. |
OpusTeX
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TeX software for setting Gregorian chant music, developed by Andreas Egler, Daniel Taupin and Ross Mitchell. FTP download. Some macros of OpusTeX are due to Youping Huang. Stanislav Kneifl also joined the project. OpusTeX is a set of TeX macros to typeset polyphonic, orchestral or choral music. It is mainly intended to be used to type wide scores. There is a big metafont family called Opus. |
Norbert Preining's Otibet package for using Tibetan with Haralambous' Omega package in TeX. The font Tibetan used in it is based on Sirlin's fonts gtib and gtibsp. It is given in metafont format. | |
Pacioli
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Peter R. Wilson's metafont code (1999) for Pacioli. "The pacioli package provides fonts designed by Fra Luca de Pacioli in 1497. The font is uppercase letters together with punctuation and some analphabetics; no lowercase or digits." |
Berthold Crysmann's modification of the TIPA font for making a Palatino-look set of phonetic characters. In metafont and type 1. He also has similar sources for BIPA (TIPA in CM-Bright), and CIPA (TIPA in Knuth's Concrete). Finally, he also provides TIPA in type 1 format. | |
Anshuman Pandey's Bengali metafont. | |
Pandora
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Pandora metafont family written by N. N. Billawala. |
"pbm2pfnt is a program that converts a group of PBM (portable bitmap) images to a font file suitable for use with PilRC. This allows developers to create custom fonts for use within their Palm device applications. Included with pbm2pfnt is a utility script called mkpfnt which creates fonts using the MetaFont font compiler and extracts selected bitmaps from those fonts. Together with pbm2pfnt, mkpfnt allow you to use MetaFont to create fonts for use with your Palm device." | |
Metafont code by Peter Vanroose (University of Leuven, Belgium) that resembles his handwriting. The font is called "Script". | |
Peter Willadt's free barcode fonts in metafont format, covering Code 128, EAN, Codabar, Interleaved 2 of 5, Code 39, Code 93, Code 11. Written in 1999. | |
Type 1 (pfb) to metafont conversion. | |
Phonetic metafonts
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Phonetic metafont collection by Emma Pease, based on Computer Modern. |
Designer of the metafont family Capital Baseball. | |
Free GNU license open source code (in Python) for transforming a pk font (bitmap font created for use in TeX from a metafont description) or metafont font into a type 1 font. The competition: textrace, MetaFog (proprietary, not open source code), and MetaType1 (too simplistic). By Han-Wen Nienhuys aka Jan Nieuwenhuizen. | |
PL fonts
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The PL fonts are a set of Polish extensions of the Computer Modern fonts. The type 1 and metafont code is in the public domain. Created by Janusz M. Nowacki, the 77 fonts are PLCaps10-Regular, PLDunhill10-Regular, PLFibonacci8-Regular, PLFunny10-Italic, PLFunny10-Regular, PLInch-Regular, PLMathExtension10-Regular, PLMathExtension9-Regular, PLMathItalic10-BoldItalic, PLMathItalic10-Italic, PLMathItalic12-Italic, PLMathItalic5-Italic, PLMathItalic6-Italic, PLMathItalic7-Italic, PLMathItalic8-Italic, PLMathItalic9-Italic, PLMathSymbols10-BoldItalic, PLMathSymbols10-Italic, PLMathSymbols5-Italic, PLMathSymbols6-Italic, PLMathSymbols7-Italic, PLMathSymbols8-Italic, PLMathSymbols9-Italic, PLRoman10-Bold, PLRoman10-BoldItalic, PLRoman10-Italic, PLRoman10-Regular, PLRoman12-Bold, PLRoman12-Italic, PLRoman12-Regular, PLRoman17-Regular, PLRoman5-Bold, PLRoman5-Regular, PLRoman6-Bold, PLRoman6-Regular, PLRoman7-Bold, PLRoman7-Italic, PLRoman7-Regular, PLRoman8-Bold, PLRoman8-Italic, PLRoman8-Regular, PLRoman9-Bold, PLRoman9-Italic, PLRoman9-Regular, PLRomanDemi10-Regular, PLSans10-Bold, PLSans10-BoldItalic, PLSans10-Italic, PLSans10-Regular, PLSans12-Italic, PLSans12-Regular, PLSans17-Italic, PLSans17-Regular, PLSans8-Italic, PLSans8-Regular, PLSans9-Italic, PLSans9-Regular, PLSansDemiCond10-Regular, PLSansQuotation8-Italic, PLSansQuotation8-Regular, PLSlanted10-BoldItalic, PLSlanted10-Italic, PLSlanted12-Italic, PLSlanted8-Italic, PLSlanted9-Italic, PLTeXExtended10-Regular, PLTeXExtended8-Regular, PLTeXExtended9-Regular, PLTypewriter10-Italic, PLTypewriter10-Regular, PLTypewriter12-Regular, PLTypewriter8-Regular, PLTypewriter9-Regular, PLTypewriterCaps10-Regular, PLTypewriterSlanted10-Italic, PLTypewriterVarWd10-Regular, PLUnslanted10-Regular. The fonts were originally created by Janusz M. Nowacki in 1997 and released during the meeting of the Polish TeX Users Group (GUST) in Bachotek. Several minor bugs were removed during a few years of using the fonts. Total re-arrangement of the collection and adaptation to the Windows environment took place out in 2000 and was carried out by the JNS TEAM (Boguslaw Jackowski, Janusz M. Nowacki and Piotr Strzelczyk). |
Polish TEX/Metafont site. Has subdirectories with type 1 fonts. | |
Based in Hasselt, The Netherlands, this is an advanced document engineering company, dealing with metapost, PDF, postscript, TEX, metafont, and professional typesetting in general. Led by Hans Hagen and Ton Otten. Publishers of PDFTEX. | |
Hans Hagen's site with ConText, a TEX macro package, and METAFUN, a metapost related manual. | |
Technical University of Eindhoven source for converting PostScript fonts to PK (bitmap) files, useful with TEX. | |
The Cahiers GUTenberg and La Lettre GUTenberg are French publications dealing with all typographical matters. They are situated on the threshold between good typographical practice and the development of related software. Archives GUTenberg. Run from IRISA in Rennes. | |
Designer of the magic dingbat font "Magic", in metafont format. | |
Recycling logo in metafont, by Ian Green. | |
From the Department of Physics at the Technion, Jacques Goldberg's REDIS Hebrew (meta)font. | |
RSFS - Ralph Smith's Formal Script Symbol Fonts
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UCSD's Ralph Smith developed METAFONT sources for fonts of uppercase script letters for use as symbols in scientific and mathematical typesetting. His glyphs are based on the so-called Spencerian or Copperplate hand lettering which prevailed in the eighteenth century. Type 1 sources now available as well. |
Russian Izhitsa
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Russian Izhitsa is a metafont developed by Oleg Motygin. |
Article by Yannis Haralambous on his Sabra package for using Syriac in TeX. The package covers Serto (or: Jacobite; the Peshito variant, however, is not covered), Estrangelo (but Melchitic and Mandean, variants, are not covered) and East Syriac (or: Nestorian). It also offers Garshuni (Syriac writing of Arabic). Ligatures and stretching connections (keshideh) are automatically performed. The fonts are in METAFONT format. | |
Sam Sirlin is the author of textib, a Tibetan package for TEX. He also converted Don Stilwell's Gaka font into a metafont. He created gtib, another Tibetan font. On this page, you'll also find Leonardo Gribaudo's BOD, another Tibetan font. | |
Professor at the Technion (Haifa) who made the metafonts crml10 and crmlsl10 (Carmel and Carmel Slanted), both bold titling fonts. | |
Sanskrit metafonts
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Sanskrit metafont by Charles Wikner. |
John Sauter has prepared alternate parameter files that make it possible to generate the Computer Modern fonts at any point size. This seems to work well from 4 to 40 point sizes. The files were maintained almost from the beginning by Jörg Knappen, but will be maintained from January 1999 on by Jeroen Nijhof. Current version is 2.4. | |
SDIMF |
New font-creation system based on Knuth's metafont, but different. Creates font in a generic format from which PostScript, TrueType and screen fonts are easily derived. By Dae-In Seo, and announced in August 98 in the Metafont mailing list. |
Semaphor metafont by Vit Zyka from Czechia (1998). | |
Creator of a hieroglyphic and a Coptic metafont. | |
Sergei V. Znamenskii |
Person who suggests replacing cmti by cmtiup in which italic corrections are placed in the kerning. Similar replacement of cmsl by cmslup was suggested. |
Developer in 1999 of an Armenian font package for TEX and Armenian metafonts. Co-developers: A. Dalalyan and V. Hakobian. The "artmr" metafont family was converted from the TrueType font family "ArTarumianTimes" made by Ruben Hakobian. The sans serif "arssr" metafont family was converted from the PostScript font "Sassoun", which was originally created and released as "Sassoun" (1994) by Raffi Kojian. Yet another source. | |
Free Go software for printing go games in TEX. Includes Go metafonts developed by Daniel Bump and Reid Augustin. | |
From Essex University, Alan M. Stanier's metafont for Shavian. From Alan's readme: "The Shavian "Proposed British Alphabet" was devised by Kingsley Reed and was the winning entry in a competition financed by a trust set up under George Bernard Shaw's will. The aim was to find an alphabet able to write English without indicating single sounds by groups of letters or by diacritical marks." | |
Sinhala TeX is a package of Metafont fonts and a preprocessor suitable for writing Sinhala script using TeX or LaTeX. This package was originally developed by Yannis Haralambous, with funding from the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE, England. It was later modified by Vasantha Saparamadu at Macquarie University in Sydney to add support for the "samanala" transliteration scheme developed by Prasad Dharmasena. See also here and here. | |
skak
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Metafont chess fonts called "skak". Part of the skak package developed by Dane Torben Hoffmann in 2000. See also here. In 2002, several symbols were added by Dirk Baechle. |
skull
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From Denmark, Henrik Christian Grove's metafont for a skull-and-crossbones symbol. |
From Essex University, Alan M. Stanier's metafont for South Arabian. "% This font was used for several languages in Southern Arabia in the second millenium BC." | |
Oliver Corff's Soyombo for Latex and an intro to the Soyombo script used in parts of Mongolia. | |
Robert Spalek's Czech tutorial on metapost. | |
Road symbols in metafont and type 1, by Alan Jeffrey and kiwi Jeremy Gibbons. | |
Designer of the metafont Futhark. | |
Syriac (Modern Assyrian) Alphabets
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Tony Khoshaba and Isa Benyamin (an Assyrian caligraphist) developed a complete set of Eastern Syriac (meta)fonts at the Syriac Computing Institute. The truetype font Ishtar2 (1998) is a modification of an earlier Assyrian font, Nisibus. See also here. See also here. |
The Palladam Tamil font was designed in 1989-1990 by T. Govindaraj who works or worked at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. Plus software for its use in TeX. Alternate URL. | |
Free type 1 fonts, created from metafont source code by Taco Hoekwater, using Hobby's metapost to get .eps files, and then Kinch's metafog to get .pfb files. Hinted and touched up manually with FontLab v3.0c. Included are: rsfs{5,7,10}, wasy{5,7,10,b10}, stmary{5,6,7,8,9,10}, xipa{10}, logo{8,9,10,bf10,sl10}. Go to ps-type1/hoekwater of the respective metafont font directories. Check also here or here. | |
Taco Hoekwater's arrow10 font |
A font that contains about all the arrows and harpoons that Unicode, MathML, the STIX group and Taco Hoekwater could come up with. (Quote from Taco himself.) |
Using Oleg Motygin's ttf2mf, Daniel Taupin created metafont versions for Times, Arial, Arial Narrow, Book Antiqua, Bookman Old Style, Courier, Garamond, Helvetica and Times New Roman. | |
tcvn
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Nguyen-Dai Quy's family of Vietnamese metafonts. |
TeluguTEX
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Lakshmankumar Mukkavilli and Lakshmi Mukkavilli present Telugu TeX, complete with a set of metafonts. |
Tengwar and Cirth
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Metafonts developed by Julian Bradfield. |
Daniel S. Smith's page on Tengwar fonts. Has free fonts for Mac and PC. Metafont examples by Julian Bradfield and Michael Urban. | |
Postscript and metafont font archive. | |
List of fonts (metafont and other) in the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN). | |
TEX and LATEX font guide by David Wright | |
31 sets of Hangul fonts for TeX. A mirror. | |
Specs. | |
Archive of PostScript fonts and metrics files (tfm) for their use with TEX. Includes the AMS fonts. | |
Specs. | |
"TeXtrace is a collection of scripts for UNIX that convert any TeX font into a Type1 .pfb outline font immediately suitable for use with dvips, pdftex, acroread (and any many other programs). The main advantage of using Type1 fonts with TeX is that Acroread renders TeX's bitmap fonts ugly on screen, but it renders outline fonts beautifully and fast. " Free software written by P&eac; ute;ter Szabó. | |
TeX font metrics file format specs. | |
TFM/PK font viewer by Yotam Medini. It uses (needs) Tcl/Tk. In addition to that it browses TeX's fonts. Current version 0.72. Alternate URL. | |
Jörg Knappen's page on the European Computer Modern fonts. "The following languages are supported by the Cork encoding: Afrikaans, Albanian, Breton, Croat, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, Frisian, Gaelic, Galician, German, Greenlandic, Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish (modern orthography), Italian, Letzeburgish, Lusatian (Sorbian), Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Rhaetian (Rumantsch), Romanian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish." | |
Description of most TeX packages by ozzie Graham Williams. Unbelievably useful! Tons of links. The link file alone is 747K, jam-packed with information. | |
Graham Williams' useful catalog of CTAN fonts for TEX and LATEX. | |
The `zd' fonts by Constantin Kahn are virtual T1 encoded Computer Modern fonts based on (OT1) Computer Modern, Times, and Helvetica fonts, intended to simulate `dc' fonts. Robert Fuster has adapted the Kahn's package to `ec' fonts. The resulting virtual fonts are named according to the ec fonts names, changing `ec' by `ze'. | |
Tibetan metafonts, and help files for the use of Tibetan in TeX and LaTeX. The metafont is by Sam Sirlin. Other pieces of code, including LaTeX Tibetan, are by Jeff Sparkes (Computer Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland). Dead link. | |
TIPA
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Rei Fukui's IPA metafonts and type 1 fonts. |
Torsten Bronger converted the metafont Fraktur fonts of Yannis Haralambous (yfrak, yswab, yinit and ygoth) to type 1. Type 1 versions generated by Torsten Bronger. See also here. | |
Trajan
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Peter R. Wilson's metafont code (1999) for Trajan. "The trajan package provides fonts based on the capitals carved on the Trajan column in Rome in 114 AD. Many typographers think these rank first among the Roman's artistic legacy." In 2005, type 1 versions were created as well: Trajan-Roman, Trajan-Slanted. |
trsym
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trsym is a metafont font developed by Jan Holfert in 2000. This font contains symbols used for transformations (e.g. Laplace transformation). There are horizontal and vertical symbols both for transformation and inverse transformation. |
Based on Knuth's Computer Modern, TSIPA is a phonetic metafont made by Hajime Kobayashi, Rei Fukui, and Shun Shirakawai in 1992, improving the older WSUIPA phonetic font. However, it too has now been superseded by TIPA, a 256-position font. | |
A Windows program by Konstantin Vasil'ev, which converts Windows True Type fonts to TEX PK fonts. Free demo. | |
A Windows program by Oleg V. Motygin, which is intended to convert Windows True Type fonts to MetaFont format. Source freely available on request. Technical note: TTF2MF obtains information on True Type fonts by using Windows GDI functions (GetGlyphOutLine etc.). That is why the program works with installed fonts instead of .ttf files. Alternate site. Still another site. A clean-up program by Daniel Taupin, called ttfmf2t1.c, may be applied to the output. See also here. | |
Pierre A. MacKay presents some Turkish metafonts. | |
Thomas Weinmann's connected handwriting font in metafont format. | |
Article by Yannis Haralambous on typesetting Khmer in TeX. It talks about the script, an encoding table, a METAFONT (developed by him), and the typesetting problems. | |
Useful French typography mailing list started by Jacques André, Thierry Bouche, Alain Hurtig and Olivier Randier. Managed by Jacques André from the University of Rennes. Complete archive of this mailing list. | |
From Essex University, Alan M. Stanier's metafont for Ugaritic, a cuneiform alphabet (as opposed to the syllabic cuneiform of Akkadian or Hittite), as found on tablets dated from the Late Bronze Age (ca 1400 - 1200 BC) in Northern Syria and Palestine, notably in the archives at Ugarit. | |
ulsy
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Extra mathematical symbols to complement cmsy. In metafont. By Ulrich Goldschmitt. |
Article by Yannis Haralambous on typesetting Berber in TeX. It includes some description of METAFONT fonts made by him: tifi, tifis, tifisb, tifib. | |
Huge metafont families for Old English (called wngb, or Washington Gerald Barnett), Washington Romanized Indic (called wnri), and Washington Puget Salish (called wnps, or Lushootseed, for American Indian languages). | |
Very useful links for math, typography, TEX and metafont. | |
Vicentino fonts
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Metafont fonts developed by Willibald Kraml in Vienna in 1992. There are three script fonts. A `cursive' shape, which is a slanted shape written with a wide-nibbed pen. A `twist' shape: a slanted shape with constant width. And a `modern script' shape: an upright shape with a forward sloping stress axis. They would mainly be suitable for display text. |
Viking
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Uwe Zimmermann designed the metafont Viking (2003). He explains: "The package VIKING contains the two 16 letter runic alphabets as used by the vikings in Scandinavia. It is based on the archaic font series by Peter Wilson and uses the same, simple installation and interface routines." |
List of available metafonts. | |
vispeech
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"The Visible Speech is a phonetic alphabet invented by Alexander Melville Bell (you may have heard of his son, Alexander Graham Bell, who invented a fairly widely-used contraption). Bell was a teacher of the Deaf (as was the younger Bell, incidentally), and this alphabet was intended as an aid to teaching the Deaf how to pronounce words, by reducing sounds to a presumably unambiguous representation." Metafont developed by Mark Shoulson. |
vncmr is a Vietnamese extension of the Computer Modern Roman font family. v1.0 was by Cuong Nguyen (1991). v2.0 and up are by By Werner Lemberg. | |
VNR provides Vietnamese Fonts for TeX. The fonts are in Metafont and type 1 format. The VNR package is originally written by Ha`n The^' Tha`nh and currently maintained by Ky` Anh. See also here. | |
Designer of the metafont DM. | |
Waldis Symbol fonts (wasy)
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Extra mathematical symbols to complement the math symbol fonts. Has astronomy and physics symbols, for example. In metafont. PostScript versions also available. The wasy font series was developed by Roland Waldi. |
German designer of the free font Augie, a Type1 font simulating informal American style handwriting (2000), based on an earlier font called Augie by Steven J. Lundeen (1997). Based on Euler and CM, he also developed the Euler math fonts (2001). He is active in the TEX community, which he showers with many prersents. Check for example his pages with tfm/vf metrics for many commercial type 1 familiers. | |
Programs that convert between files needed for TEX typesetting: GF, PK, GF, TFM, PL, VF, VPL, AFM. | |
Anshuman Pandey's Metafont fonts for Old English, Indic languages in transcription, and American Indian languages. "The Washington Romanized (WNRI) Indic package enables texts encoded in the 8-bit Classical Sanskrit/Classical Sanskrit eXtended (CS/CSX) encoding to be typeset in \TeX{} without modification of the input scheme." Pandey also developed a LaTeX package for Gurmukhi/Punjabi, which uses a metafont he generated (with permission) from Hardip Singh Pannu's Punjabi truetype font. | |
Washington Tamil font in metafont format, created by Thomas Ridgeway (University of Washington) in 1990. | |
Dr. Wolfgang Leister, formerly from the Institut für Betriebs und Dialogsysteme at the Universität Kärlsruhe in Germany, and now a Senior Research Scientist, Norwegian Computing Center, made a Braille metafont. | |
IPA metafonts from Washington State University. | |
XBfe (X Bitmap Font Editor) allows you to hand-edit a bitmap font--both the shapes (i.e., the pixels) and the metric information (set widths, side bearings, and kerning tables). The input is both a bitmap (GF or PK) font and a corresponding TFM file. Part of the GNU font utilities package. | |
Xfig descriptions of the world's flags, free to download. All flags were created by Brian Smith, except those of Austria, Belgium, Catalan, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britian, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden and Switzerland (which were created by Roland Rosenfeld), and those of Slovenia and Russia (by Roman Maurer). Note: these flags can be made into metafont by a script provided by Dror Bar-Natan. | |
Edits BDF fonts on X-Windows (simple ASCII representation of bitmap fonts) and can import Linux console fonts, Sun VF fonts, X bitmap, Linux console fonts (PSF, CP, FNT), metafont PK/GF, Windows FON/FNT fonts, TrueType fonts, and HBF (Han bitmap fonts. It exports PSF fonts if necessary. Developed and freely made available by Mark Leisher, Computing Research Lab, New Mexico State University, Box 30001, Dept. 3CRL, Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA. FTP access. | |
Metafont/TEX font and font software developer, specializing in non-Latin fonts and their integration in TEX. Ran Atelier Fluxus Virus in Lille, France. Codeveloper of the Omega typesetting system. Since 2001, professor of Computer Science at the École Nationale Supérieure des Telecommunications de Bretagne in Brest. He is the author of the 1000+-page text Fontes et codages (O'Reilly, 2004). See also here. Also author of Keeping Greek Typorgaphy Alive, an article presenyed at the 1st International Conference on Typography and Visual Communication held in Thessaloniki in June 2002. | |
Oliver Corff (Ulaanbaatar, 1997) developed TEX code for using Yi (or Lolo, a language spoken in southwestern China). Included are metafont sources of 1165 characters provided in two typefaces, regular and boldface. | |
Article on a package by UCLA's Moschovakis for mixed English/Greek text in TEX. | |