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Meta Ff Spiekermann Round Dots J I Curved

Name Meta
Characteristics
Round dots above “j” and “i”
Curved edged stems on many letters.
Strokes of lowercase “y” do not completely meet.
History
FF Meta is a humanist sans-serif typeface family designed by Erik Spiekermann originally as a commission for the Deutsche Bundespost (West German Post Office), but later released by Spiekermann himself in 1991 through his FontFont library. According to Spiekermann, FF Meta was intended to be a “complete antithesis of Helvetica,” which he found “boring and bland.” Throughout the nineties, FF Meta was embraced by the international design community with Spiekermann and E. M. Ginger writing that it had been dubiously praised as the Helvetica of the 1990s.

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