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Re:Introducing OpenType Variable Fonts by pgtan on Thursday September 15, 2016 @02:23AM (#12503866)
> I took it as basically nobody else used METAFONT.

yeah, well, same true for Multiple Master fonts. It ended up that Adobe gave the font metrics to the TeX[0] community. The complexity of the fonts was obviously too much for the "graphic designer".

0 https://www.lcdf.org/type/mm-metrics-1.2.tar.gz

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Re:Introducing OpenType Variable Fonts by taeric on Thursday September 15, 2016 @12:13PM (#12507358)
What are the odds that this time, things will take off? :)
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