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FF Meta is a humanist sans-serif typeface family designed by Erik Spiekermann and released 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.” It originated from an unused commission for the Deutsche Bundespost (West German Post Office). Throughout the 1990s, 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.'' FF Meta has been adopted by numerous corporations and other organizations as a corporate typeface, for signage or in their logo. These include Imperial College London, The Weather Channel, Free Tibet, Herman Miller, Zimmer Holdings, and Fort Wayne International Airport.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/graphicidentity/applyingthegraphicidentity/usingtherightfont )〕 ==Visually distinctive characteristics== Characteristics of this typeface are: ;Lower case *Round dot over the letter ''i'' and ''j''. *Ends of the letter ''s'' are nearly horizontal *Curved bottom of ''l'', making it clearly different to a 1 or upper-case ''i''. *Double-storey ''a'' with a very open aperture at the top. *Not fully closed bottom loop in binocular ''g''. *Bend to the left at the top of the letters ''b'', ''h'', ''k'', ''l''. *A very distinctive y where the two strokes do not join smoothly. ;Upper case *Dropped horizontal element on ''A''. *Angled letter ''M'', more resembling Futura or an upturned ''W'' than Helvetica or Gill Sans *Slanted upper terminal on the top right of ''E, T, F''. E and T are not symmetrical. A general feature of FF Meta is relatively open apertures, in contrast to the more folded-up appearance of Helvetica. This is believed to promote legibility and make the letterforms more clearly different from one another. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「FF Meta」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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