Image: Metrolite and Metroblack
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Description: Dwiggins' Metrolite and Metroblack fonts, geometrics types of the style popular in the 1930s. Shown in a Linotype brochure promoting their expertise in creating highly legible fonts. Metro is shown in the revised form that saw commercial release, with the 'M', 'a' and other characters revised to resemble the highly successful Futura.
Title: Metrolite and Metroblack
Credit: Internet Archive, page from the book 'The Legibility of Type'
Author: Mergenthaler Linotype Company, Brooklyn
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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