A Profession Provoked: How Meta-Font Struck a Nerve

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A Profession Provoked: How Meta-Font Struck a Nerve

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A Profession Provoked: How Meta-Font Struck a Nerve

Deborah Littlejohn

College of Design, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA (dklittle[at]ncsu.edu)
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Littlejohn, D. (2026). A profession provoked: How Meta-Font struck a nerve. Visible Language, 60(1), 120–123. https://www.visible-language.org/journal/issue-60-1-how-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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