> in general, though -- is Metafont still the way we add new fonts to TeX these days in 2016? Nowadays, we have XeTeX, which allows for the use of any OpenType

> in general, though -- is Metafont still the way we add new fonts to TeX these days in 2016? Nowadays, we have XeTeX, which allows for the use of any OpenType font. In fact, for a long time XeTeX was the only non-Adobe product that could actually make use of OpenType features. I have fond memories of playing around with XeTeX in 2009-ish to show off all the really cool stuff my fonts could do.