Humanist sans-serif FF Meta is a family designed by and released in 1991 through his library. According to Spiekermann, FF Meta was intended to be a 'complete antithesis of ', which he found 'boring and bland'. It originated from an unused commission for the (German Post Office). Throughout the 1990s, FF Meta was embraced by the international design community with Spiekermann and E. Ginger writing that it had been dubiously praised as the Helvetica of the 1990s. FF Meta has been adopted by numerous corporations and other organizations as a corporate typeface, for signage or in their logo.
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These include,. The uses FF Meta Serif alongside FF Meta. Used FF Meta initially as his primary campaign typeface before choosing as his vice presidential running mate. After Pence was chosen, Trump switched to Montserrat, a free typeface that is part of the library. Samples of FF Meta. Ends of the letter s are nearly horizontal. Curved bottom of l, making it clearly different to a 1 or upper-case i.
Double-storey a with a very open aperture at the top. Not fully closed bottom loop in binocular g.
Bend to the left at the top of the letters b, h, k, l. Bend to the right at the top of the letter d. A very distinctive y where the two strokes do not join smoothly. Upper case. Angled letter M, more resembling Futura or an upturned W than Helvetica or Gill Sans.
Slanted upper terminal on the top right of E, T and F. E and T are not symmetrical. A general feature of FF Meta is relatively open, in contrast to the more folded-up appearance of Helvetica. This is believed to promote legibility and make the letterforms more clearly different from one another.
Development Development began in February 1985 when Deutsche Bundespost approached, where Spiekermann was working at the time, and commissioned a comprehensive corporate design program. As the typeface would be used repeatedly in small sizes, for identification (rather than ), require two different, and printed quickly on potentially poor paper stock, the brief called for a very legible, neutral, space-saving, and distinguishable (in regards to weight) typeface with special attention to producing unmistakable characters. Whereas traditionally, typefaces are designed to be viewed beautifully large, the goal with this particular typeface was to produce a typeface which worked well for its primary application. Taking into account research done on six font families and the constraints of the brief, the characteristics of what would become FF Meta began to take shape. The typeface would have to be a sans-serif to match the client, (but not ) to save space, feature strokes thick enough to withstand uneven printing but also light so that individual characters do not run together, contain clearly distinguishable glyphs for similarly shaped characters, versatile capitals and figures that are clear but not obtrusive, and curves, indentations, flares, and open joins to combat poor definition, optical illusions, and over-inking. In addition to these demands, to meet Bundespost's needs, the family would also contain three fonts: regular, regular italic, and bold.
The typeface is particularly similar to, one of Spiekermann's candidate typefaces. After completing and digitizing the typesetting font, were generated for Bundespost's new forms and publication. However, despite positive interest from the German Minister of Telecommunications among others, Bundespost decided not to implement the new exclusive typeface for fear it would 'cause unrest'. Bundespost, despite funding the project, continued instead to use a variety of different versions of Helvetica (before changing them to ). Spiekermann wrote an article on the abandoned design for in 1986. At this time Meta was called PT55 (for the regular weight) and PT75 (bold). Releases.
The Weather Channel logo, using FF Meta Years later, realizing that Bundespost and Sedley Place Design would never utilize the typeface, Spiekermann with his company decided to continue work on the typeface and eventually published it—along with other orphaned typefaces —under his newly formed publishing label resulting in the release of FF Meta in 1991. This version of FF Meta was created by re-digitizing the original outlines and digitizing them in on a, work which was done by Spiekermann’s interns Just van Rossum and between 1988-1989. 1991 FF Meta family released containing normal, normal small caps, and bold. 1992 FF Meta 2 released as an expansion adding an italics weight, and small caps for bold. 1993 FF MetaPlus released featuring some fine tuning of characters, spacing, and kerning along with the introducing three new weights: book, medium, and black in roman, italics, roman small caps, and roman small caps italics except for black which lacked small caps. 1998 FF Meta reorganized and released with the following families: FF Meta Normal, FF Meta Book, FF Meta Medium, FF Meta Bold and FF Meta Black, all in roman, italic, small caps and italic small caps, which came with their respective expert and lining figures. Sometime before 2005 foreign language versions by and., a condensed family, and additional light weights were added as: FF Meta Light, FF Meta Thin, and FF Meta Hairline.
2007 A serif companion, entitled FF Meta Serif, was completed and released. 2011 A Hebrew version was released. 2013, a free derivative for 's Personnel Writing in 1987, Spiekermann gave these credits for Meta as originally designed for the Bundespost.
Original sketches, concept, and research for FF Meta by Erik Spiekermann and Michael Bitter at Sedley Place Design, Berlin. Design of the completed alphabets by Gerry Barney and Mike Pratley at Sedley Place Design, London. Imperial College London. Retrieved 10 August 2015. University of Hull.
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Archived from on 2008-07-31. Cyrillic versions were developed for ParaType in 2001 by Tagir Safayev and Olga Chayeva. Hallmundur, Aegir. Retrieved 11 July 2015. References.
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Spiekermann, Erik (1987), (PDF), Baseline (9): 6–9. Spiekermann, Erik; Ginger, E. Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works (Second ed.). Berkeley, California: Adobe Press. External links.
About Meta Normal Lf Roman Name Meta Normal Lf Roman Type OpenType Category Uncategorized Family Meta Normal Lf Style Roman PostScript MetaNormalLFRoman Glyph Number 231 Units Per em 1000 Ascender 925 Descender -208 Height 1133 Max Advance Width 1218 Max Advance Height 1133 Underline Position -152 Underline Thickness 20 Global BBox (150,208), (1178,925) Has Horizontal yes Has Vertical no Has Kerning no Is Fixed Width no Is Scalable yes Font Size 27.5 KB Downloads Yesterday 0 Total Downloads 635 Rating.