Metafont

Metafont is a font generation program associated with TeX. Its main function is to convert an .mf source font to a .gf (Generic Font) file and a .tfm (TeX Font Metrics) file. Typically, one would then convert the .gf file to some other standard font format.

Metafont is written in WEB.

Identification
A GF file begins with bytes.

Software

 * Metafont (also at mf.zip)
 * mfware - Supporting tools for Metafont (also at mfware.zip)

Sample files

 * http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/ .../*.mf (e.g. cm/mf/)

Links

 * Metafont
 * The Metafont Book (PDF · Amazon)
 * Generic Font File Format