{Metafont as a design tool}
{Steve Peter}
{Well-written Metafont sources provide a font designer with a nearly
unparalleled tool to explore variations on a typographic theme.  Paired
with \TeX\ in an advanced environment, the designer can explore serif
structure, bracketing, weight variations and more in the context in
which the font will be used: real textual matter. I'm going to ignore
the production problems inherent to Metafont (not to mention the various
possible solutions) to concentrate on the design aspects of this amazing~tool.}