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A comment on Decovar – A multistyle decorative variable font.

Re:Decovar – A multistyle decorative variable font by falsedan on Friday February 10, 2017 @07:38PM (#13620201)
Sounds an awful lot like METAFONT.
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Re:Decovar – A multistyle decorative variable font by thechao on Friday February 10, 2017 @08:34PM (#13620417)
The thing I absolutely miss the most from grad school is porting my advisor's whiteboard chicken scratch into parametric METAPOST graphics. It let us size & scope images to their target: posters, conference papers, slides, journal publications, etc.
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Re:Decovar – A multistyle decorative variable font by webmaven on Monday February 13, 2017 @09:19AM (#13635329)
It does, doesn't it? There seems to be a fairly clear trail of inspiration from this and many similar ideas in the past.
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