Metafont

Metafont - description language used to define rastertype fonts. This programming language is the 202^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 212^th most popular programming language in English Wikipedia. Article “Metafont” in English Wikipedia has 41.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 16 references and 15 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.18 points.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Metafont”, its content was written by 111 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 374 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Metafont is on the 212^th place in local ranking of programming languages in English Wikipedia and on the 202^nd place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 189 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1084 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2178 in March 2002
• Global: #2583 in March 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #100894 in November 2009
• Global: #122133 in December 2009

There are 17 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Metafont		41.3934
2	Catalan (ca) Metafont		27.9033
3	Italian (it) METAFONT		26.5622
4	Chinese (zh) METAFONT		25.2761
5	Ukrainian (uk) Metafont		19.1099
6	Czech (cs) Metafont		17.4145
7	German (de) Metafont		16.8813
8	Korean (ko) 메타폰트		11.8825
9	Spanish (es) METAFONT		10.1882
10	Swedish (sv) Metafont		10.1208

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Metafont" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Metafont		562 214
2	German (de) Metafont		85 751
3	Japanese (ja) METAFONT		43 784
4	Polish (pl) METAFONT		43 592
5	Russian (ru) METAFONT		42 873
6	French (fr) Metafont		39 912
7	Chinese (zh) METAFONT		32 621
8	Spanish (es) METAFONT		29 047
9	Italian (it) METAFONT		22 208
10	Portuguese (pt) METAFONT		10 547

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Metafont" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Metafont		1 939
2	Chinese (zh) METAFONT		164
3	Japanese (ja) METAFONT		139
4	German (de) Metafont		127
5	French (fr) Metafont		110
6	Spanish (es) METAFONT		73
7	Russian (ru) METAFONT		72
8	Czech (cs) Metafont		27
9	Polish (pl) METAFONT		27
10	Swedish (sv) Metafont		27

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Metafont" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Metafont		111
2	German (de) Metafont		60
3	French (fr) Metafont		41
4	Italian (it) METAFONT		25
5	Russian (ru) METAFONT		25
6	Chinese (zh) METAFONT		21
7	Spanish (es) METAFONT		19
8	Japanese (ja) METAFONT		19
9	Polish (pl) METAFONT		12
10	Swedish (sv) Metafont		10

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Metafont" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Catalan (ca) Metafont		0
2	Czech (cs) Metafont		0
3	German (de) Metafont		0
4	English (en) Metafont		0
5	Spanish (es) METAFONT		0
6	Persian (fa) فراقلم		0
7	French (fr) Metafont		0
8	Italian (it) METAFONT		0
9	Japanese (ja) METAFONT		0
10	Korean (ko) 메타폰트		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Metafont" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Ukrainian (uk) Metafont		202
2	English (en) Metafont		189
3	Polish (pl) METAFONT		178
4	Japanese (ja) METAFONT		111
5	Russian (ru) METAFONT		108
6	French (fr) Metafont		84
7	Chinese (zh) METAFONT		84
8	German (de) Metafont		30
9	Italian (it) METAFONT		16
10	Catalan (ca) Metafont		15

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Metafont
cs	Czech Metafont
de	German Metafont
en	English Metafont
es	Spanish METAFONT
fa	Persian فراقلم
fr	French Metafont
it	Italian METAFONT
ja	Japanese METAFONT
ko	Korean 메타폰트
pl	Polish METAFONT
pt	Portuguese METAFONT
ro	Romanian METAFONT
ru	Russian METAFONT
sv	Swedish Metafont
uk	Ukrainian Metafont
zh	Chinese METAFONT

Best Rank

English: #100894 11.2009

Global: #122133 12.2009

Best Rank

English: #2178 03.2002

Global: #2583 03.2002

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