Metapost Gothic font

Design of fonts based on gothic scripts, Fraktur and Textura calligraphy. I used Metapost to make these fonts as this tool is interesting to compare to calligraphy in my opinion: Metapost designs shapes by defining points with coordinates and defining drawing instructions, which is similar to calligraphic ductus. The interest of this tool is also that we can define our own "pens", so an outline with a defined shape to apply on the central stroke of the letter.

The specimen was designed using HTML and CSS.