Why Meta-Font Struck a Nerve

Why Meta-Font Struck a Nerve

Mike Zender

College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA (zenderpm[at]ucmail.uc.edu)
Douglas Hofstadter; Donald Knuth; meta-font; parametric design; letterforms

Keywords: Douglas Hofstadter; Donald Knuth; meta-font; parametric design; letterforms

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Zender, M. (2026). Why Meta-Font struck a nerve. Visible Language, 60(1), 84–89. https://www.visible-language.org/journal/issue-60-1-why-metafont

First published online April 26, 2026. © 2026 Visible Language — this article is open access, published under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.

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