{Metapolator: Why Metafont is finally catching on} {Dave Crossland} {This presentation follows up on my paper, ``Why didn't \MF\ catch on?''\ presented at \TUG\,2008 and in \TUB\,29:3. In March 2013, Dave contacted the developers of the Metaflop web application, and met with designer Simon Egli in New York. Simon proposed a radical idea to enable typeface designers to harness the power of \MF's parametric capabilities without requiring them to write any \MF\ code. After a year of prototyping, Dave and Simon secured financial support from the Google Fonts project to fully develop such a tool with a team of collaborators from around the world. They call it Metapolator. }