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Metro #2™ from Linotype Metro #2™ is a Linotype font family with 3 styles. Click the Purchase Options button below to view pricing and availability information. |
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Design Credits
First seen on MyFonts: September 14th, 2000
Designed by: William Addison Dwiggins
Designed when: 1929-30
Contained in Category: Legible
Design owned by: Linotype
Originally created by: Mergenthaler
MyFonts Keywords: bauhaus, clean, corporate, geometric, legible, magazine, metro, modern, rounded, sans-serif
Metro
In 1929 Chauncey Griffith at Mergenthaler commissioned W.A. Dwiggins to design a warmer and less mechanical Geometric Sanserif to compete with Futura. Dwiggins’ best efforts proved that human warmth had little to do with cool geometry; for twelve years, until the introduction of Spartan, Mergenthaler lost ground to Intertype’s licensed version of Futura.
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