In the arts there are people working with Metafont. Check out Dexter Sinister's Letter & Spirit (2012), see http://servinglibrary.org/journal/3/letter-and-spiri

In the arts there are people working with Metafont. Check out Dexter Sinister's Letter & Spirit (2012), see http://servinglibrary.org/journal/3/letter-and-spirit http://servinglibrary.org/journal/3/letter-and-spirit then click on the PDF link. Letter & Spirit opens by describing a dialog between Knuth and Douglas Hofstadter ("Metafont, Mathematics, and Metaphysics"). For Hofstadter's essay, see https://core.ac.uk/display/15352994 https://core.ac.uk/display/15352994 or chapter 13 (p.260 & fwd.) of Metamagical Themas (https://archive.org/details/metamagicalthema0000hofs/page/n9/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/metamagicalthema0000hofs/page/n9...). There is also Dexter Sinister's "A Note on Type" (https://www.sternberg-press.com/product/notes-on-the-type-time-letters-spirits/ https://www.sternberg-press.com/product/notes-on-the-type-ti...). All this suggests that Knuth's Metafont work has ended up being a successful provocation regarding how it is possible to encode creative design and visual language.