Donald Knuth started work on font creation software in 1977, and produced the first version of Metafont in 1979.
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Donald Knuth: Metafont: The Program, Addison-Wesley 1986.
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While well-known font designers, such as Hermann Zapf, have collaborated with Knuth to create new fonts using Metafont, the system has not been widely adopted by professional type designers.
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First implemented in METAFONT, AMS Euler was first used in the book Concrete Mathematics, co-authored by Knuth, which was dedicated to Euler.