Meta-Metafont

Metafont is a computer language for designing digital typefaces, developed by the mathematician Donald Knuth at Stanford. He uses the term meta-font to mean a font about fonts. A meta-font is a description of typographic family traits: relations of thick to thin, height to width, x-height to cap height, serif to stem, and so on. The particular language Metafont is a tool for designing meta-fonts. OK. Hold it. Now even we are confused. But what we do know is that this is a handsome 2-sided poster from the 1986 exhibition curated by Ellen Lupton when she was curator at the Lubalin Center.