In reply to A serif font created with METAFONT:
BTW, using pens can be interesting for fonts of calligraphic nature e.g. a Naskh style Arabic fonts, I know some people who experimented with parametrised Arabic MetaFonts to build glyphs of arbitrary width to be used in justification, the idea looked good but the resulting glyphs were aesthetically suboptimal, not sure if it is lack of skill or the idea itself was flowed, one day I'll try it :)
