Metro Office

from Linotype

Metro Office is a Linotype font family with 4 styles.

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Metro Office

Metro Office Regular

Metro Office Italic

Metro Office Bold

Metro Office Bold Italic

Design Credits

First seen on MyFonts: April 1st, 2007
Designed by: William Addison Dwiggins, Akira Kobayashi
Designed when: 2006
Design owned by: Linotype
MyFonts Keywords: American, humanist, sans-serif, XSF

Metro Office

The Metro Office family is designed after the model of the original sans serif family produced by W.A. Dwiggins and Mergenthaler Linotype’s design studio during the late 1920s and 1930s. A distinctly new interpretation of the sans serif idea, Metro was a thoroughly “American” sans serif when it was released. However, over the ensuing decades, it became a favorite the world over. Moreover, it is one of the first “humanist” sans serif typefaces designed.

While redesigning Metro in 2006, Linotype’s Type Director Akira Kobayashi drew from his own knowledge of humanistic letterforms. The result is a redefined Metro; a typeface that is finally ready for heavy text setting.

The original Linotype Metro never had italic variants. Kobayashi has created oblique variants, extending its use in document setting.

A double-storey a and g, as well as a wider w were features of Dwiggins’ original Metro design that were filtered out by Mergenthaler Linotype in the 1930s. Kobayashi remedied this historical slight, retooling Dwiggins’ original forms and optimizing their legibility.

Kobayashi has additionally retooled some of Metro’s more troublesome letters, which has black elements that became too dense. By opening up the troublesome joins (like that on the Q), Kobayashi has given his new Metro a more even color in text, improving its legibility while retaining its original spirit.

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