Those who enjoy this sort of thing might also enjoy reading Donald Knuth's “The Concept of a Meta-Font” (from 1982): http://visiblelanguagejournal.com/issue/61/article/748 — although the technology used is very different (it was designed for print after all), he plays a lot of lovely tricks with the font on the page (changing x-height, “e-height”, etc), including gradually transitioning from a serif to a sans-serif typeface. Note that even the “production” Computer Modern family available by default with TeX distributions itself has all its typefaces (including sans-serif, monospaced, bold, italic, etc. variants) by varying parameters in a single font.
Direct link to PDF: https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/visiblelanguage/pdf/V16N1...
Can you explain what you mean by "struggle"? If you click on the page, it brings up what amounts to several character maps; there's a 'g' in the upper right-hand quad. Then you can move the cursor around as before to observe the changes. But I'm not sure what's wrong with the 'g'; is it on the X- or Y-axis that you see problems? what kind of problems?
An Arial 'g' and a Times New Roman 'g' are fundamentally different because
1. The stem is on different sides
2. They have a different number of loops
For most letters you can transition between the two fonts by simply adding or removing serifs and and making things either more or less curvy. But for the 'g' you have to change the fundamental shape. As you can see in the screenshot, I've added a 'g' to the example text and expect to see a 'g' which is 93% Arial and 7% Times New Roman - however the 'g' shown is a Times New Roman style 'g' and looks nothing like an Arial 'g' (which has the stem on the right not the left, and one loop instead of two)
> If you click on the page, it brings up what amounts to several character maps
In the character map view, I can see that the Arial 'g' is nothing like a real Arial 'g' - it's a Times New Roman 'g' with fewer serifs.
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Also, look at Metaflop modulator: https://www.metaflop.com/modulator
https://timesnewarial.liebermannkiepereddemann.de/js/script....
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/font-variat...
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An Arial 'g' and a Times New Roman 'g' are fundamentally different because
1. The stem is on different sides
2. They have a different number of loops
For most letters you can transition between the two fonts by simply adding or removing serifs and and making things either more or less curvy. But for the 'g' you have to change the fundamental shape. As you can see in the screenshot, I've added a 'g' to the example text and expect to see a 'g' which is 93% Arial and 7% Times New Roman - however the 'g' shown is a Times New Roman style 'g' and looks nothing like an Arial 'g' (which has the stem on the right not the left, and one loop instead of two)
> If you click on the page, it brings up what amounts to several character maps
In the character map view, I can see that the Arial 'g' is nothing like a real Arial 'g' - it's a Times New Roman 'g' with fewer serifs.