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Û (RELEASE  INFO)                       ÛÛÛÛ     RELEASE DATE: 03/06/2008
Û ²²                                    ÞÛÛÛÝ    SiZE iN MB  : 03 x 1.44MB
Û ÛÛ         FONT NAME : META SERIF 1
Û ÛÛ         PUBLISHER : FontFont
Û ÛÛ         PRIZE     : 199 Euro                TYPE        : PostScript
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Û (RELEASE  NOTES)                                                         ÛÛ Û
Û ²²                                                                       ÛÛ Û
Û ÛÛ             The most influential sans serif typeface of the           ÛÛ Û
Û ÛÛ             digital revolution just got a serif sister.               ÛÛ Û
Û ÛÛ                                                                       ÛÛ Û
Û ÛÛ             Introducing: FF Meta Serif                                ÛÛ Û
Û ÛÛ                                                                       ÛÛ Û
Û ÛÛ    It took three years and three designers to develop FF Meta Serif:  ÛÛ Û
Û ÛÛ    Erik Spiekermann, Christian Schwartz and Kris Sowersby. All        ÛÛ Û
Û ÛÛ    through the nineties, Erik Spiekermann had made several attempts   ÛÛ Û
Û ÛÛ    at designing a companion for his original Meta. Colleagues had     ÛÛ Û
Û ÛÛ    frequently been asking him which serif face would best fit to      ÛÛ Û
Û ÛÛ    FF Meta. He recommended Swift, Concorde, Minion, FF Clifford and   ÛÛ Û
Û ÛÛ    others until he realized that he should just make his own serif    ÛÛ Û
Û ÛÛ    Meta.                                                              ÛÛ Û
Û ÛÛ                                                                       ÛÛ Û
Û ÛÛ    At the beginning of 2005 Erik finally admitted to himself that     ÛÛ Û
Û ÛÛ    he was stuck - all of his sketches looked like Meta with serifs    ÛÛ Û
Û ÛÛ    added, not like a serif typeface that could survive on its own.    ÛÛ Û
Û ÛÛ    He needed fresh eyes, so he got Christian involved who, in turn,   ÛÛ Û
Û ÛÛ    asked Kris to take on some of the workload. Obviously, a serif     ÛÛ Û
Û ÛÛ    Meta would need to fit in with the existing Meta family. After     ÛÛ Û
Û ÛÛ    drawing the first weights the designers saw that there was still   ÛÛ Û
Û ÛÛ    something wrong: the serifs were too strong so that both families  ÛÛ Û
Û ÛÛ    didn't really go well together in the same line, despite identical ÛÛ Û
Û ÛÛ    x-heights. The theoretical approach obviously hadn't worked well   ÛÛ Û
Û ÛÛ    enough, so they decided to trust their experience instead. They    ÛÛ Û
Û ÛÛ    changed the metrics so that the letters are not mathematically     ÛÛ Û
Û ÛÛ    identical, but optically the same. Now what you see is what you    ÛÛ Û
Û ÛÛ    get. And they discarded the idea of a tighter spacing to make      ÛÛ Û
Û ÛÛ    it appear darker. After much trying, comparing, generating fonts   ÛÛ Û
Û ÛÛ    and printing out samples, the final formula for a new Meta was     ÛÛ Û
Û ÛÛ    found: two percent heavier and two percent more condensed than     ÛÛ Û
Û ÛÛ    the sans.                                                          ÛÛ Û
Û ÛÛ                                                                       ÛÛ Û
Û ÛÛ    Erik van Blokland's sophisticated technology "Superpolator"        ÛÛ Û
Û ÛÛ    helped to extend the family, although manual corrections were      ÛÛ Û
Û ÛÛ    always necessary: the spirit of a typeface can still not be        ÛÛ Û
Û ÛÛ    delegated to software.                                             ÛÛ Û
Û ÛÛ                                                                       ÛÛ Û
Û ÛÛ    While it is a typeface that can stand up on its own in a wide      ÛÛ Û
Û ÛÛ    range of applications, the extra benefit is its close relation-    ÛÛ Û
Û ÛÛ    ship to the original Meta, its sans serif sister. The two          ÛÛ Û
Û ÛÛ    families can be mixed in the same line and one can be used to      ÛÛ Û
Û ÛÛ    accentuate the other. Using both on the same page adds variety     ÛÛ Û
Û ÛÛ    and meaning to a text.                                             ÛÛ Û
Û ÛÛ                                                                       ÛÛ Û
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Û ÛÛ                                                                       ÛÛ Û
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Û ÛÛ                                                                       ÛÛ Û
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Û ÛÛ                                                                       ÛÛ Û
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Û ÛÛ    is for private use only!                                           ÛÛ Û
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