page_title: FF Meta
section_title: Visually distinctive characteristics
hierarchical_section_title: FF Meta / Visually distinctive characteristics
caption_attribution_description: Schriftprobe für die Schrift FF Meta
context_page_description: 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. 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, the television stations WSYR-TV, WIVT and WUTR in upstate New York, Herman Miller, Zimmer Holdings, Mozilla Corporation, Mozilla Foundation, Schaeffler Group and Fort Wayne International Airport. The University of Hull uses FF Meta Serif alongside FF Meta. The Government of Greece has used FF Meta Greek as the official government typeface since 2010.
context_section_description: 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.
  Bend to the right at the top of the letter d.
  A very distinctive y where the two strokes do not join smoothly.
  Upper case
  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 and 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.
caption: Samples of FF Meta
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