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mflogo

Provides specialized fonts and commands for typesetting the official Metafont and METAPOST logos with correct styling and spacing.

Overview

Enables precise typographic reproduction of the distinctive Metafont and METAPOST logos as designed by Donald Knuth, ensuring brand consistency in technical documentation and academic writing.

  • Implements the exact font specifications detailed in The Metafontbook.
  • Offers commands for correctly styled logos that maintain proper kerning and letter spacing.
  • Commonly used in TeX-related documentation, academic papers discussing typography, and publications about digital font design.
  • Essential for authors writing about TeX, Metafont, or METAPOST to maintain official branding standards.

Getting Started

To use mflogo, include it in your document preamble:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{mflogo}

This package provides access to the Metafont logo fonts and commands to typeset Metafont logos in your LaTeX documents.

Examples

Using the mflogo package to typeset the Metafont and MetaPost logos correctly in a LaTeX document.

The \MF{} logo represents Knuth's font design system, while the \MP{} logo represents the related graphics language. Both logos should be typeset with the correct font and spacing, which this package provides.

Note that the logos are produced by the commands \verb|\MF{}| and \verb|\MP{}| respectively.

Combining the mflogo package with text formatting to create a document about Metafont.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{mflogo}
\title{Introduction to \MF{}}
\author{John Smith}
\date{\today}
\begin{document}
\maketitle

\section{What is \MF{}?}
\MF{} is a programming language developed by Donald Knuth for font design. It is the companion to \TeX{} and was used to create the Computer Modern family of typefaces.

\section{Relationship to \MP{}}
\MP{} (\verb|\MP{}|) is a graphics programming language based on \MF{} (\verb|\MF{}|) but designed for creating more general graphics rather than just fonts.
\end{document}