Metafont

File Format
Name	Metafont
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Fonts Metafont
Extension(s)	.mf, .gf
Released	≤1984

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 f7 83.

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

• Wikipedia: Metafont
• The Metafont Book (PDF · Amazon)
• Generic Font File Format