> Obviously, today it's long in the tooth: 128 glyphs are way to few, the fact that it creates bitmap fonts is en vogue, either. To be fair, the language Metaf

> Obviously, today it's long in the tooth: 128 glyphs are way to few, the fact that it creates bitmap fonts is en vogue, either. To be fair, the language Metafont defines the font in vector format, but computers at the time weren't fast enough to interpret metafont on the fly generating the fonts, so in all metafont software until today there is this preprocessing part where you generate bitmap fonts. I wonder if Metafont could be used today with new software which interprets Metafont code generating fonts on the fly. I read the Metafont book and all the programming capabilities appear very powerful and useful. Perhaps we could create fonts where there is variation each time a letter is printed, logos and symbols with more interactive behavior when it's compressed or stretched out...