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Metromedium™ #2 Roman- by William A. Dwiggins |
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Metromedium™ #2 Com Roman
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| Price: | US$ 65.00 |
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388 characters
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OTF - TrueType flavoured
File name: Metromedium2Com.ttf Windows menu name: Metromedium Two Com PostScript name: Metromedium2Com PostScript full name: Metromedium Two Com |
Catalog material number:
36844285
Metromedium™ #2 Roman
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| Price: | US$ 39.00 |
Character set features:
250 characters
Technical information
File name: lte51817.ttf Windows menu name: MetroMedium LT Two PostScript name: MetroMediumLT-Two PostScript full name: MetroMedium LT Two |
Catalog material number:
35151817
Metromedium™ #2 Roman
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| Price: | US$ 39.00 |
Character set features:
247 characters
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File name: lte51817.pfb Windows menu name: MetroMedium LT Two PostScript name: MetroMediumLT-Two PostScript full name: MetroMedium LT Two |
Catalog material number:
35351817
Metromedium™ #2 Roman
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| Price: | US$ 39.00 |
Character set features:
247 characters
Technical information
File name: MetroMedLTTwo PostScript name: MetroMediumLT-Two PostScript full name: MetroMedium LT Two |
Catalog material number:
35051817
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Mergenthaler was so confident in Dwiggins’ potential as a type designer that in May 1929 they signed him to an exclusive contract (at $ 2500 per year) months before his sans serif was completed. The company wanted to snatch him away from potential rivals such as American Type Founders, Barnhart Brothers & Spindler and Continental Typefounders, all of whom had expressed an interest in commissioning type from him. The National Display Alphabet Co., makers of Innes Alphabets – alphabets [...]
Dwiggins’ decision to get out of advertising had been building for six or seven years. In March 1922 he found himself unable to complete a job for his friend Carl Purington Rollins, printer to Yale University. “I am really puzzled to know what has bitten me, some kind of stage-fright, or else I am nicked for the time being in my inventive faculties. Other work has gone sour in the same manner.” The problem was not stage-fright but adult-onset diabetes, the same disease that [...]
About Metromedium™ #2 Roman ...
Designer: William A. Dwiggins, 1937
Metromedium™ #2 Roman belongs to the Metromedium™ #2 Font Family which is part of the Linotype Originals.
American graphic designer William Addison Dwiggins' (W.A.D. for short) first typefaces were the Metro family, designed from 1927 onward. The project grew out of Dwiggins' dissatisfaction with the new European sans serif typefaces of the day, such as Futura, Erbar, and Kabel, a feeling he expressed in his seminal book Layout in Advertising. Urged by Mergenthaler Linotype to create a solution for the problem, Dwiggins began a professional relationship that would span over the next few decades.The first Metro family typeface to be released was Metroblack, brought to market by Linotype in 1929 (Metroblack #2™ the only one of the two versions that Mergenthaler Linotype eventually put into production which is available in digital form). With more of a humanist quality than the geometric styles popular in Europe at the time, Dwiggins drew what he believed to be the ideal sans serif for headlines and advertising copy. Metroblack has a warmer character than the Modernists' achievements, and the type is full of mannered curves and angled terminals (Metroblack also has an astoundingly beautiful Q).
The other weights of the Metro family, Metromedium #2™ and Metrolite #2™, were designed by Mergenthaler Linotype's design office under Dwiggins' supervision.
Despite having been created more than three-quarters of a century ago, the Metro family types have aged well, and remain a popular sans serif family. Although spec'd less often than other bestsellers, like Futura, Metro continues to find many diverse uses. The typeface has appeared throughout Europe and the North America for decades in newspapers and magazines, and can even help create a great brand image when used in logos and corporate identity.
Dwiggins ranks among the most influential graphic designers and typeface designers of the 20th Century. He has several other quality fonts in the Linotype Originals, including the serif text faces Electra™ and New Caledonia™, as well as Caravan™, a font of typographic ornaments.
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