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META PRO
Meta is a typeface designed by Erik Spiekermann. It includes many weights and styles.
In the 1990s, the typeface quickly entered widespread use due to its clean, cheery, and distinctive aesthetic, and its ability to serve well in multiple design capacities including signage and correspondence.
It’s also part of an entire super family, containing FF Meta Serif and several variations for headline or everyday office use for maximum flexibility.
The Museum of Modern Art in New York added FF Meta to its permanent collection in 2011, one of only 23 fonts selected to represent typography of the digital era.
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META SERIF
It was only after seeking the help of fellow type designers Christian Schwartz and Kris Sowersby that Erik Spiekermann was able to fashion a suitable serif companion to his most famous sans, FF Meta. Rather than pasting serifs in place, the process took starting from scratch until a face appeared that looked and felt like a Meta, but that functioned more like a traditional seriffed text family.
FF Meta Serif comes in six weights from light to black, and covers Latin, Greek and Cyrillic scripts, thanks to additional contributors Ralph du Carrois and Botjo Nikoltchev. Its features include small caps, multiple figure sets, and a range of arrows and symbols.
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