FF Meta font

FF Meta™ was designed in 1991-93 by Eric Spiekermann based on the typeface comissioned by the German Post Office (Bundespost) in 1984 as an exclusive corporate font. However the face was not accepted by the customer and the whole project was cancelled. In 1989 its artwork was digitized and the new face of 3 styles was created by Just van Rossum. It was named FF Meta after Meta Studio in which the new typeface was used exclusively. Then FontShop started to distribute FF Meta and some extra weights together with the corresponding italics and small caps were added by Luc(as) de Groot. The face is very popular, especially in the US where it has been used for setting of ID magazine, the leading publication for industrial and communication design. Meta has been hailed as "the typeface for the nineties". Young designers seem to appreciate its rugged charm, which owes a lot to the detailed requirements of small type on bad paper. Cyrillic versions were developed for ParaType in 2001 by Tagir Safayev and Olga Chayeva.

FF Meta Normal Old Style Figures

FF Meta Normal Line Figures

FF Meta Normal Small Caps

FF Meta Normal Small Caps & Line Figures

FF Meta Normal Italic Old Style Figures

FF Meta Normal Italic Line Figures

FF Meta Normal Italic Small Caps

FF Meta Normal Italic Small Caps & Line Figures

FF Meta Book Old Style Figures

FF Meta Book Line Figures

FF Meta Book Small Caps

FF Meta Book Small Caps & Line Figures

FF Meta Book Italic Old Style Figures

FF Meta Book Italic Line Figures

FF Meta Book Italic Small Caps

FF Meta Book Italic Small Caps & Line Figures

FF Meta Medium Old Style Figures

FF Meta Medium Line Figures

FF Meta Medium Small Caps

FF Meta Medium Small Caps & Line Figures

FF Meta Medium Italic Old Style Figures

FF Meta Medium Italic Line Figures

FF Meta Medium Italic Small Caps

FF Meta Medium Italic Small Caps & Line Figures

FF Meta Bold Old Style Figures

FF Meta Bold Line Figures

FF Meta Bold Small Caps

FF Meta Bold Small Caps & Line Figures

FF Meta Bold Italic Old Style Figures

FF Meta Bold Italic Line Figures

FF Meta Bold Italic Small Caps

FF Meta Bold Italic Small Caps & Line Figures

FF Meta Black Old Style Figures

FF Meta Black Line Figures

FF Meta Black Small Caps

FF Meta Black Small Caps & Line Figures

FF Meta Black Italic Old Style Figures

FF Meta Black Italic Line Figures

FF Meta Black Italic Small Caps

FF Meta Black Italic Small Caps & Line Figures

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