FontForge and moving forward

Interesting to learn about Metapolator. So Metafont is still alive, if in a different form. One of the more interesting chapters in Douglas Hofstadter's "Metamagical Themas" (originally columns in Scientific American in the early 1980s) is a discussion of Metafont, including a version of "The Lord's Prayer" typeset by Knuth slowly tweaking parameters such that the first few words look like some 19th-century florid heavily-serifed font, while the last few look like a modern sans-serif typeface not too different from Verdana (which was well in the future at that time), but the changes from word to word are hardly perceptible. I wonder if Metapolator can pull off things like that (not that I'm sure there is a point, and much of Hofstadter's article was devoted to attacking Knuth's view that there is a "universality" to fonts such that a sufficient number of twiddlable knobs could cover all the font families around.)