The mets family features a serif and a sans serif, officially called ff meta sans and ff meta serif. The sans was designed by Spiekerman in the 90's. Meta is a very popular and well known sans serif face, small intricate make it a very interesting face.
After much love for the sans, he attempted the serif.
3 years and help from Christian Schwartz and Kris Sowersby he accomplished the goal of a serif counterpart.
The 2 are made to compliment each other. One could easily use the 2 face at the same size in the same line without problem.
This write up is really half assed and not giving meta the praise it truly deserves.
Meta
Serif and sans
characteristics:
Thursday, December 13, 2007
FF Meta | Eric Spiekermann
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I just stumbled across your blog and hope that you keep updating it. My interest in typography keeps growing and your blog is helping me expand my knowledge. Thanks.
you mentioned typos. One i noticed is that you wrote "these" instead of what I only assume you meant " thesis".
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