Meta International

Over the last decade more and more Non-Western versions of FF Meta have been designed. If you need to set Baltic languages, Romanian, Turkish, Central European languages, Greek or Cyrillic, you can now get all of these in a package (with their Western cousins) in two basic weights, Book and Bold with their Italics. Go to Read More and see the PDF.

The PDF shows all the international Metas.
FF_MetaInternational.pdf

Futura - the perfect geometric typeface?

I have often found that supposedly perfect typefaces turn out to be less so on close inspection. Consider these examples for Futura: the version from Adobe (top in both examples) is clearly badly digitized. Early days, they were still learning -- it's not about blaming anybody, but about getting our client -- Volkswagen -- a decent typeface. If Futura's O is supposed to look like a perfect circle, why does it look like an egg? And look at the counters in a, g, and e! Those are also supposed to be circular, not egg-shaped. So we took the typeface apart and reassembled it. If your VW had egg-shaped wheels, wouldn't you complain? Or excuse it as an expression of the designer's creativity?