Comments on: At last! FF Meta Serif http://ilovetypography.com/2007/11/14/at-last-ff-meta-serif/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:35:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Design & Art Direction - FF Meta Serif Microsite http://ilovetypography.com/2007/11/14/at-last-ff-meta-serif/#comment-12766 Design & Art Direction - FF Meta Serif Microsite Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:51:22 +0000 http://ilovetypography.com/2007/11/14/at-last-ff-meta-serif/#comment-12766 [...] Perhaps we’ll see more typeface-dedicated micro-sites popping up. What do you think? And how do you feel about me posting the odd mini post like this? Related: At Last! FF Meta Serif [...] […] Perhaps we’ll see more typeface-dedicated micro-sites popping up. What do you think? And how do you feel about me posting the odd mini post like this? Related: At Last! FF Meta Serif […]

]]> By: SpiekerBlog » Blog Archive » FF Meta Serif 1.0 http://ilovetypography.com/2007/11/14/at-last-ff-meta-serif/#comment-11953 SpiekerBlog » Blog Archive » FF Meta Serif 1.0 Mon, 27 Oct 2008 04:47:15 +0000 http://ilovetypography.com/2007/11/14/at-last-ff-meta-serif/#comment-11953 [...] Meta Serif auf Typophile FF Meta Serif auf I Love Typography FF Meta Serif auf Chez Porchez, und ein Artikel mit Hintergrundinformationen: FF Meta Serif auf [...] […] Meta Serif auf Typophile FF Meta Serif auf I Love Typography FF Meta Serif auf Chez Porchez, und ein Artikel mit Hintergrundinformationen: FF Meta Serif auf […]

]]> By: SpiekerBlog » Blog Archive » FF Meta Serif 1.0 http://ilovetypography.com/2007/11/14/at-last-ff-meta-serif/#comment-11951 SpiekerBlog » Blog Archive » FF Meta Serif 1.0 Mon, 27 Oct 2008 03:19:31 +0000 http://ilovetypography.com/2007/11/14/at-last-ff-meta-serif/#comment-11951 [...] Meta Serif on Typophile FF Meta Serif on I Love Typography FF Meta Serif on Chez Porchez, plus one piece with a lot of background information: FF Meta Serif [...] […] Meta Serif on Typophile FF Meta Serif on I Love Typography FF Meta Serif on Chez Porchez, plus one piece with a lot of background information: FF Meta Serif […]

]]> By: FF Meta Serif Microsite | aboutCREATION http://ilovetypography.com/2007/11/14/at-last-ff-meta-serif/#comment-10649 FF Meta Serif Microsite | aboutCREATION Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:15:20 +0000 http://ilovetypography.com/2007/11/14/at-last-ff-meta-serif/#comment-10649 [...] Perhaps we’ll see more typeface-dedicated micro-sites popping up. What do you think? And how do you feel about me posting the odd mini post like this? Related: At Last! FF Meta Serif [...] […] Perhaps we’ll see more typeface-dedicated micro-sites popping up. What do you think? And how do you feel about me posting the odd mini post like this? Related: At Last! FF Meta Serif […]

]]> By: FF Meta Serif Microsite | i love typography, the typography and fonts blog http://ilovetypography.com/2007/11/14/at-last-ff-meta-serif/#comment-10633 FF Meta Serif Microsite | i love typography, the typography and fonts blog Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:11:02 +0000 http://ilovetypography.com/2007/11/14/at-last-ff-meta-serif/#comment-10633 [...] At last! FF Meta Serif [...] […] At last! FF Meta Serif […]

]]> By: Kevin http://ilovetypography.com/2007/11/14/at-last-ff-meta-serif/#comment-4136 Kevin Sun, 20 Jan 2008 05:31:56 +0000 http://ilovetypography.com/2007/11/14/at-last-ff-meta-serif/#comment-4136 Meta Serif is pretty much a copy of Meta, with the serifs added to better go with the Sans. Open it up in a font viewer and see for yourself. Meta Serif is pretty much a copy of Meta, with the serifs added to better go with the Sans.
Open it up in a font viewer and see for yourself.

]]> By: Cody http://ilovetypography.com/2007/11/14/at-last-ff-meta-serif/#comment-4131 Cody Sun, 20 Jan 2008 02:36:10 +0000 http://ilovetypography.com/2007/11/14/at-last-ff-meta-serif/#comment-4131 Actually, I just tried what I said in my post above! Haha. Even with my glasses off, I can see a difference in the bottom bowl of the "g". Haha, I totally thought they would both look like the same blurry bar. Actually, I just tried what I said in my post above! Haha.

Even with my glasses off, I can see a difference in the bottom bowl of the “g”. Haha, I totally thought they would both look like the same blurry bar.

]]> By: Cody http://ilovetypography.com/2007/11/14/at-last-ff-meta-serif/#comment-4130 Cody Sun, 20 Jan 2008 02:34:40 +0000 http://ilovetypography.com/2007/11/14/at-last-ff-meta-serif/#comment-4130 Johno You know Johno, I think you are right! When I turn the brightness to low on my cinema display, stand in the back of the room, take off my glasses, and THEN stare at the screen with the comparison... I can totally see the similarities. Johno
You know Johno, I think you are right! When I turn the brightness to low on my cinema display, stand in the back of the room, take off my glasses, and THEN stare at the screen with the comparison… I can totally see the similarities.

]]> By: erik spiekermann http://ilovetypography.com/2007/11/14/at-last-ff-meta-serif/#comment-4125 erik spiekermann Sat, 19 Jan 2008 18:05:39 +0000 http://ilovetypography.com/2007/11/14/at-last-ff-meta-serif/#comment-4125 Here are some examples of serif faces that look <em>really</em> similar to each other: <img src="http://www.spiekermann.com/media/metaisgeorgia.gif" /> Here are some examples of serif faces that look really similar to each other:

]]> By: johno (iLT) http://ilovetypography.com/2007/11/14/at-last-ff-meta-serif/#comment-4123 johno (iLT) Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:00:10 +0000 http://ilovetypography.com/2007/11/14/at-last-ff-meta-serif/#comment-4123 If FF Meta Serif is a copy of Georgia, then I'm the Pope. Cody, yes, that's why I posted the image. However, when I stand about 20 meters from my monitor, looking through my bad eye, with the lights dimmed, they do look similar ;) I'll tell you what they do have in common: they are both fonts. Something else worth noting is that Meta Serif's other half, Meta was designed before Matthew Carter's Georgia. Perhaps Mr Carter just took Meta and stuck on some serifs ;) And nobody noticed! Conversation between Erik Spiekermann and Matthew Carter in 1993. Erik telephones Matthew: <strong>es</strong>: "hey, Carter, what's with this Georgia!?" <strong>mc</strong>: "not sure what you mean, Erik..." <strong>es</strong>: "...you know damn well what I mean--you just copied my Meta and stuck on some of your fancy serifs!" <strong>mc</strong>: "Oh, you noticed. Well, um...tell you what, if you promise to keep quiet about this one, we'll go halves on the royalties..." <strong>es</strong>: "OK, but, when I get around to designing a serif companion to Meta, I'm going to copy Georgia and tweak those fancy serifs of yours." <strong>mc</strong>: "deal!" If FF Meta Serif is a copy of Georgia, then I’m the Pope. Cody, yes, that’s why I posted the image. However, when I stand about 20 meters from my monitor, looking through my bad eye, with the lights dimmed, they do look similar ;) I’ll tell you what they do have in common: they are both fonts.

Something else worth noting is that Meta Serif’s other half, Meta was designed before Matthew Carter’s Georgia. Perhaps Mr Carter just took Meta and stuck on some serifs ;) And nobody noticed!

Conversation between Erik Spiekermann and Matthew Carter in 1993. Erik telephones Matthew:

es: “hey, Carter, what’s with this Georgia!?”
mc: “not sure what you mean, Erik…”
es: “…you know damn well what I mean—you just copied my Meta and stuck on some of your fancy serifs!”
mc: “Oh, you noticed. Well, um…tell you what, if you promise to keep quiet about this one, we’ll go halves on the royalties…”
es: “OK, but, when I get around to designing a serif companion to Meta, I’m going to copy Georgia and tweak those fancy serifs of yours.”
mc: “deal!”

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