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Has anybody work with Font Design?especially Meta Font system or Tex?
I wanted to know any reading material/books on getting started in this area.
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I would start with TeX book and Metafont book by Don Knuth (the author of Metafont and TeX). He's good at writing book also
 
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Thanks.I think Metafont book will be an appropriate one to start with.Many of Knuth's books are not easy to understand(The whole world disagrees with this!!).How is this book,'Metafontbook'.If its explaination contains some 'MIX',then I will wait for sometime!
 
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Don Knuth's books are easy. But I am a fan of him, what else can I say?
Try to read them yourself and find out
 
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Thanks.
Should I start with Metafont book first?I wanted to know how the fonts are designed?I read the Amazon review,book contains Pascal Code as book was published in 1986.
 
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None of these books are available here in Indian edition.
One book was available but foreign edition costing Rs 800.
Any other book suggestions related to fonts?
 
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